{"id":612,"date":"2008-09-04T21:31:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-08-15T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T23:50:51","slug":"wordpress-automatic-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemons to Lemonade &#8211; Automatic Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/4\/5091865_8391d12c1e_m.jpg\" alt=\"lemons\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><small> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59089068@N00\/5091865\/\" title=\"ms.Tea\" target=\"_blank\">ms.Tea<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>After the fiasco with <a title=\"A Harrowing Encounter with Ignorance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/all-caps-was-my-only-choice\/\">The Ignoramus<\/a>, I briefly considered refunding his money since he was so disappointed about the Improved PageFlip not documenting the super-secret (i.e. known to everyone but him) process of resizing the stage.  Fortunately I quickly came to my senses and decided to do something much more satisfying and give the money to a worthy cause.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is known for it&#8217;s rapid rate of upgrade releases and keeping up with all of the changes used to be a real pain in the butt until <a title=\"WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Developer's Page\" href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/wordpress-plugins\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html\">WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin<\/a> came along.  The WPAU plugin presents a series of links to painlessly guide you through the upgrade process and handles all of the backing-up, downloading, deactivating and reactivating for you.  <a title=\"Download WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin from WordPress.org\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade\/\">Download the plugin<\/a>, install it like any other WordPress plugin, read the <a title=\"WordPress Automatic Upgrade FAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade\/faq\/\">FAQ<\/a> and you&#8217;ll be upgrading in no time.  Sweet clean and neat.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks guys, I know $12.50 isn&#8217;t a lot but maybe it&#8217;ll help get that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/foolswisdom.com\/broken-wordpress-plugin-or-theme-blame-me\/#comment-184277\">rollback<\/a>&#8221; feature into future versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I considered giving <a title=\"ALL CAPS was my only choice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/all-caps-was-my-only-choice\/\">The Ignoramus<\/a> his money back since he was so disappointed that I didn&#8217;t document the super-secret (i.e. known to everyone but him) process of resizing the stage. Fortunately I came to my senses and gave the money to a worthy cause instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44,20],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-plugin","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}