New WordPress

My blog says that WordPress 2.6 is available - and I should update. I clicked the link and was brought to the download page. I thought that a feature of 2.5 was automatic updates - anyone know what’s going on? Why do I have to do the whole download/upload thing?

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5 Responses to “New WordPress”


  1. John LeMasney Says: July 15th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    I use the InstantUpgrade plugin to do an automated WP upgrade, but I heard about the auto updates feature in 2.5 too, which I’ve never actually seen anywhere. I thought they were going to include InstantUpgrade by default. However, if you’d like a stable one click upgrade tool for WP, you can’t beat it.

  2. Nicole Says: July 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    John,

    Thanks for the reminder! I have that installed :) Now I’m upgraded.

  3. John LeMasney Says: July 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    news: I upgraded to 2.6 via InstantUpgrade, and then subsequently could not login (!). That’s all resolved now (reset password via email, etc. etc.) but I did notice that you can indeed auto-upgrade plugins without InstantUpgrade. Here’s a quote from my plugin list: “There is a new version of WordPress Thread Comment available. Download version 1.4.7.5 here or upgrade automatically.”

    I do not believe this is additional functionality outside of the WP core, but I’m not sure either - it could be one of my cool 16 plugins doing this. This may be what the 2.5 auto upgrade feature was all about. However, I hope InstantUpgrade becomes part of the core - a great tool, even when it’s teh FAIL.

  4. Jonathan Says: July 16th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    I think John’s right, the automatic upgrades for plugins was the new feature that came with 2.5. Frequent upgrades is the one thing that annoys me about WordPress. I really should install that InstantUpgrade plugin…

  5. Nicole Says: July 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    Jonathan, you’re right - I was wrong - but I do have the InstantUpgrade plugin - that’s what I was remembering.

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