Comments on: Auto Upgrading to Nightly Builds

By: Making it easy to be a WordPress Tester « westi on wordpress

Making it easy to be a WordPress Tester « westi on wordpress — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:08 +0000

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By: Tomáš Kapler

Tomáš Kapler — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:41:03 +0000

:-/ i have followed instructions on http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-2-8-1-beta-1/ and i ended up with 2.9-rare. I hope that this will not be a big problem

my way from that instruction:
If you would like to automatically upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Beta 1, follow these instructions. Thanks for testing WordPress. … went to
http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/ and there done and “download the latest nightly build.” what was labeled wordpress-lately and AFTER i have replaced all files i have find out that it is 2.9-rare, not that announced 2.8.1-beta

BTW – is there any way how can i downgrade from 2.9-rare to 2.8.1 Beta without again replacing all files back? Or is it big problem to stay with 2.9.rare ? i do not know what are differencees beween those two versions

By: mary-Ann Horley

mary-Ann Horley — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:07:57 +0000

I just did this, but all it did was change the version number in the footer of wp-admin to 2.9, it didn’t actually update it

By: Akhil Sasidharan

Akhil Sasidharan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:39:07 +0000

Thanks a lot. Trying this out right now!

By: demetris

demetris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:14:05 +0000

@Otto:

I wrote “at least 2 clicks” because that’s the minimum number of clicks once you see an upgrade notice:

1. You click once on the notice to go to the upgrade screen

2. You click once again to start the automatic upgrade

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:22:12 +0000

How the upgrade process works depends on your server. The upgrade process has at least five different possible methods it can use to update files, depending on the server’s configuration and capabilities.

If your server is running mod_suphp, for example, then it really is a 1-click upgrade. No need to type in FTP details or anything.

By: Jason Pelker, Item-9 Consulting

Jason Pelker, Item-9 Consulting — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:52:34 +0000

I had this set up moving from 2.6 to 2.7, but I completely forgot how. I was looking for weeks for an article to help me so I could auto-grab the 2.8 betas and I was so desperate that I almost asked Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Chicago if he knew how to do this….

Better late than never! Thank you for the info!

By: Romain

Romain — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:18:19 +0000

Does this also work for plugin updates?

By: ovizii

ovizii — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:41:06 +0000

I’d be more curious if I can put a wpmu 2.7.1 installation into trunk mode to get Donncha’s latest ported code?

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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:04:34 +0000

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