Upgrading Wordpress Plug-ins the Easy Way

Tuesday April 29, 2008 

One of the great features that got introduced an earlier version of Wordpress was a plug-in that would actually check and notify you when newer versions of other plug-ins became available. Then it was just a simple matter of downloading the new plug-in, copying it over the old one, and calling it done.

But since Wordpress 2.5 was released, there’s a way to have it do the upgrades for you automatically, although you will need to allow the system to FTP directly into your account. I decided to give it a try, and it worked flawlessly. Without a doubt, it’ll make things a whole lot easier for some users who won’t want to take the trouble to upgrade their plug-ins manually.

Doing it manually is obviously a better method, for security reasons, but it’s nice to know that the feature is there if you just need to run a very quick update on a plug-in.

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