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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration

Part 1 – Overview and Check Minimum Requirements This is an overview video of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. This is a live upgrade of my website, so you can see how to upgrade a real website and what the best practices are when upgrading your WordPress [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 2 – Backup Your Site Automatically

This is second part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we discuss the most essential step when upgrading your website and this is backing up your site. We discuss what needs to be backed up and the recommended minimum, a triple progressive backup. Video [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 3 – Create a Backup of Your Database – Manually

This is third part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we perform a manual backup of the database, we determine which databases are we going to backup and use the phpMyAdmin to back it up. Video Transcript The next thing to do is to [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 4 – Create a Backup of Your Files – Manually

This is forth part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we perform a manual backup of our files. We zip the files using the host’s file manager and leave it on the server. Video Transcript And now I’m going to do a manual backup [...]

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Upgrade from WordPress 2.9 to 3.1 and From Thesis 1.6 to 1.8

We show you how to upgrade WordPress from 2.9 to 3.1 and Thesis from 1.6 to 1.8 in this video. We begin by backing up our website using the EZ Backup plugin and downloading a copy of the database. After we deactivate all of our plugins we then upgrade WordPress. Following this we upgrade to [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 5 – Create a Backup of Your Customization Files

This is fifth part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we show how to backup your Thesis theme customization file. We do that by downloading the Thesis All Options customization and download the export file to backup all your post, pages, comments, custom fields [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 6 – Deactivate All Plugins & Perform Automatic Update

This is sixth part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we deactivate all plugins before doing the WordPress automatic update. Video Transcript Okay so the next thing to do is deactivate all your plugins. Okay so actually, it’s taking longer than I expected it [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 7 – Test the Site

This is seventh part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, after doing the automatic update, we test the site’s functionality. We see some issues along the way and then we show how to fix them. Video Transcript And now we go test the site. [...]

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Lesson 14 - Part 8 - How to upgrade WordPress

Lesson 14 – Part 8 – How to Upgrade WordPress

That leaves us with how to upgrade WordPress because that’s where we are now. This is the old version of WordPress, it is WordPress 3.1 and we want to upgrade to 3.3.1. Automatic Upgrade We are going to use the automatic upgrade process and obviously, we’ve already backed up everything so we don’t really need [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 8 – WordPress Jackass Moment – Upgrade BYOB Website

This is eight part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we show the upgrade our live BYOBWebsite.com after doing all the necessary backups, deactivating all plugins, doing the upgrade and testing the sites functionality. Video Transcript So now let’s do it for real, right? [...]

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How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration – Part 9 – Question and Answers

This is final part of How to Upgrade Your WordPress Website – A Best Practices Demonstration Tutorial Series. In this session, we take questions about the upgrade process that we demonstrated for our WordPress website. Video Transcript Rick: So I’m going to open it back up to questions now. There were a number of you [...]

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Lesson 14 – Administrative Tasks

Configure Webmaster Tools – Watch the Video Add a site Verify Ownership Alternate method GA tracking code Add Sitemap Tour Webmaster Tools – Watch the Video Dashboard Site Configuration Diagnostics WordPress Backup Basics – Watch the Video Where WordPress Stores Information Database Files What to Backup? Database Customization Files Thesis Options WordPress “content” When to [...]

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