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Thanks for this. I wish I’d seen it before I hit the ‘upgrade now’ link! It’s taken me quite a while to put my sites back to how they were but won’t happen again now I’ve seen what I should have done.

Hi,

One note, and I’m seeing notes on the web about this. If you changed your theme name to default, that folder was overwritten by this upgrade. You’ll just need to FTP up your default theme directory. Wordpress overwrote that directory this time, though it had not in the past.

@jm: That is true…you should never name the directory of a custom theme “default”…it will get overwritten using the auto-upgrade. Also, if you customize the default Kubrick, be sure to rename it to something else. If you take a back-up before upgrading then you will be able to recover anything that may be lost.

hahaha,wp 2.7.1 make me crazy. a lot of try to update, but nothing happen.., but after saw your video, i know my prob, now i can update wp.. thank you very much, and now i want to try to update inove.. hope i can do that without trouble

I am on wordpress 2.6, and when I click upgrade now it takes me to the page where I have to download the zip not the auto upgrade page. Any ideas, thanks.

@Mike: Auto-upgrade is only available starting in 2.7, so you will need to manually upgrade your 2.6 install.

I dont know how to use for transferring the files. Do you can explain more details?
Thank you

Gracias

Huge thanks for the video you created! It helped a lot!

Figaro,
I just tried to use this process for backing up my database and now when I go to my site it says ‘broken link’? do you have any idea what it might be? I followed your directions exactly?

thank you,
Jenna

@jenna
Not without a link to your site…the one you have linked here is to a wordpress.com blog. Did you just backup the database or did you upgrade as well?

figaro,
oh, and I have not upgraded anything because after I tried to back up my files I could not get on to my site again.

figaro,
I have just tried to back up my files using file manager. I followed your directions exactly. The only think i changed was I a put wp-content, wp-includes in the ‘blog’ file thinking they would not get backed up for some reason. my site is wwwDOTpetitfoodieDOTcom

Thank you for your help

@Jenna
Jenna…it looks like your hosting account has Cpanel. If you want to send me the Cpanel login info, I’ll take a look at it. My email is: educhalk (at) gmail (dot) com

Thank you for this! I’ve used it to back-up my Wordpress site because I had to move to another host. From today everything is up and running. Thanks for your help.

Friendly greetings,
Archana

It didn’t work for me, can you give us some more information?