Updating Wordpress The Quick And Easy Way - Automatic Upgrade Plugin
By Leigh Hunt • Category: Time Management, Web Design & DevelopmentSince moving to Roatan, my new tropical home, there’s been one main issue that I’ve needed to deal with in my online business.
Limited Bandwith.
Back in the UK I had unlimited bandwith. I could download and upload to my hearts content. I’m sure this is a luxury most of you reading this will have too.
When you earn money online, you soon realise that your Internet connection is very important. And it’s something I definitely took for granted before moving to what is effectively a third world country.
Right now I have a daily limit of 2GB of download/upload from a satellite connection. This can quickly run out when you watch a few online videos and dowload software updates.
So, every time a new version of Wordpress is released I used to consume a considerable amount of bandwith downloading and then uploading the new files. Until now that is!!
Thankfully I’ve discovered a peachy little plugin called Automatic Upgrade. This plugin allows you to upgrade Wordpress by following a few simple on-screen instructions, without the need to download and upload (this is what sucks the time and bandwith) all the Wordpress files to your computer. The only items you download are zipped versions of your files and database as backups. But because the files are zipped their sizes are relatively small.
Not only does this plugin save you a large amount of bandwith, it also reduces the time it takes to upgrade Wordpress massively. Even if you have unlimited bandwith. What used to take well over an hour from start to finish (for me anyway), now takes just five minutes.
The only issue I found is that the plugin doesn’t re-activate your plugins as it should do. But that’s no biggy because you can just re-activate them manually.
All in all, this plugin comes highly recommended as a time and bandwith saver for anyone using Wordpress.
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Leigh Hunt is a proud work at home mum and serial Internet Mumpreneur. She's been running online businesses since 2002 and absolutely LOVES it! She loves it so much that she decided to start this webzine to support other mums (and dads) starting and running businesses online. She has finally embraced her passion!
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Thank you, i never known of this tools. Before i used to download, unpack, upload the update files to all 20 blogs that i manage. It tooks seriously 4 hours of works.
This sure will help me alot.
Thanks again.