Many bloggers crib that WordPress gets updates quite frequently and isn’t a good thing. Although, they should actually take this positively because this ensures that there are no security flaws in WordPress and that it is packed with new features which improves your blogging experience.
However, it can be a pain to upgrade it quite frequently as the process of upgrade is certainly not as simple and is time consuming too. Here’s what you have to go through the normal WordPress upgrade :
1. Do the backup of database.
2. Do the backup of wp-content folder.
3. Download the latest version of WordPress.
4. Deactivate all the plugins.
5. Replace all the files with new files.
6. Run the upgrade script.
7. Re-activate all the plugins.
Upgrade WordPress in 2 minutes flat!
Well, all this will surely take time as the FTP transfers are generally slow and on top of it, the biggest fear of messing up something in middle. There is quick way to avoid all these hassles and that can be done pretty quickly with the help of an excellent plugin written by Keith D’Souza called WordPress Automatic Upgrade.
This plugin is pretty fast and does all the above mentioned tasks automatically. There are two modes in it, manual and automatic. You can choose any one of those and it will take complete all the steps and you’ll have an up to date version of WordPress running on your webserver.
