InstantUpgrade: Automatic upgrades for WordPress
Alex Günsche · March 11, 2007
InstantUpgrade is a plugin for WordPress, which will perform automatic upgrades of a WordPress installation with a single click. You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice. The plugin downloads the chosen WordPress version, unpacks it, deletes the old files and inserts the new ones. All these actions don’t require funky PHP extensions — they are all handled by the InstantUpgrade plugin.
This plugin might be of special interest for you if you installed WordPress for a friend or a customer with no knowledge of FTP, PHP and MySQL. But of course, everybody else will surely also apprechiate easy and instant upgrades.
Documentation, screenshots and downloads are available at the InstantUpgrade homepage. Feedback is very apprechiated.
BEn on March 11, 2007 at 21:38 #
nice. kenn ich sonst nur von Typo3
demnächst mal testorn?
fehlt nur noch, das die plugins auch auf dem neuesten stand gehalten werden…
Markus on March 13, 2007 at 13:35 #
Auf jeden Fall eine sehr interessante Idee. Werde ich mir mal anschauen.
Michael on March 13, 2007 at 15:48 #
What a great idea! This will make me feel less nervous at upgrade time!
Thank you.
Jonathan on March 13, 2007 at 16:32 #
Finally, someone wrote this plugin!
By the way, “appreciate” is the proper spelling.
Britgirl on March 14, 2007 at 01:38 #
Wonderful idea! This should be very popular!
Jordan on March 14, 2007 at 23:38 #
Hmm, I’ll have to test this plugin out myself to see if it’s something I’ll recommend. This would definitely be a perfect plugin for some of my clients since they’re too nervous to update wordpress on their own. =)
bhlogiston on March 15, 2007 at 09:32 #
Hört sich nach dem richtigen Plugin für mich an. Allerdings habe ich einige Fragen:
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1. Was ist mit Problemen zwischen den unterschiedlichen (älteren) Upgrades. Werden die Fehler - die in den neuesten Upgrades behoben sind autoamtisch für Zwischenversionen erkannt - oder muss ich, wenn ich nicht (!) auf die neueste WP-Version aktualisieren will, auch die Geschichte der Fehlerbehebung mitmachen?
2. Ich trage mich seit Wochen mit dem Gedanken mein WP 2.03 auf die aktuelle deutsche (!) Version zu erneuern. Gibt es einschlägig bekannte Probleme - oder wäre es eine gute Idee, dieses Plugin zu benutzen. und schliesslich
3. Berücksichtigt das Plugin auch die Sprachversionen?
Besten Dank für angemessene Auskunst. Ich werde es sehr zu schätzen wissen.
Alex Günsche on March 15, 2007 at 10:11 #
Nein, man kann auch Versionen überspringen. Die Upgrade-Prozedur, die die jeweils neueste WP-Version mitbringt, regelt das — unabhängig von der gewählten Upgrade-Methode.
Wenn Du noch auf 2.0.3 bist, dann wird es langsam Zeit.
Die DE-Version wird von dem Plugin grundsätzlich nicht unterstützt, aber wirf mal einen Blick auf dem Kommentar von “Jott”; prinzipiell kann man auch die deutsche Version verwenden, zumindest, wenn man auf das neueste WP aktualisieren möchte.
Ja, Sprachdateien werden erhalten.
bhlogiston on March 15, 2007 at 10:39 #
Super, vielen Dank - den Tipp von “Jott” werde ich natürlich berücksichtigen. Heute nachmittag ist dann also definitiv WP-time.
bhlogiston on March 15, 2007 at 15:48 #
Eine Frage noch - all die files, die ich via FTP auf 777 modus änderte, müssen die nach jedem Update wieder “zugemacht” werden? -
Alex Günsche on March 15, 2007 at 15:56 #
Nein, da der Server die alten löscht und die neuen mit neuen Rechten einfügt, muss man das nicht machen. Das steht aber auch in der Anleitung.
http://www.chrismerriman.com/ on March 15, 2007 at 19:22 #
Heaven Sent……
And now for something a little more positive…
I’ve needed to upgrade my WordPress install for quite some time, but I’ve always procrastinated at the crucial moment - the idea of losing data or simply having the site down for an extend…
New York Pundit on March 16, 2007 at 05:34 #
My God It Worked!
I backed everything including the dust and the spiderwebs
on the bathroom floor of the building that hosts the server,
then shed a tear because I knew that I had to be that .01%
that would cause the apocolypse to happen, clicked the button,
and low and behold it worked like a charm!!!!
You my friend are a person that I will never forget, thank
You for this plugin, I would never have upgraded without it!
JoBo on March 17, 2007 at 10:44 #
Ein sehr praktisches, cooles plugin…danke!
Suresh on March 20, 2007 at 10:19 #
Sounds like one of the must have plugins for any wordpress user. But I have one question. Please pardon me if it is too naive. Suppose I upgrade using the plugin, then I should go back to all the files where I made any changes - like inserting ads, inserting other plugin scripts or in short every thing that I changed to get my site to look as it looks now… Right? If somebody would answer that it would be great. I want to use this plugin but don’t want o lose all the changes that I made to my files.
Alex Günsche on March 21, 2007 at 08:33 #
If you have changed the files in
wp-admin/orwp-includes/, they would be lost indeed. It is definitely no good idea to edit these files, because virtually everything in WordPress can be solved with plugins. However, I consider making available a opportunity to preserve such files in on of the next releases, even though I strongly discourage this.colbert on April 2, 2007 at 01:38 #
cool plugin but do we still need to disable all the WP plugins b4 we do an upgrade?
okg on April 6, 2007 at 13:26 #
Moin Alex,
das klingt ja alles mehr als gut. Hast Du Informationen darüber, ob man mit IU auch von wirklich älteren WP-Versionen upgraden kann? Mit “wirklich älter” meine ich zB. WP 1.2.
#edit: man sollte vor dem Fragen alles lesen… So wie es aussieht, muß zunächst von Hand auf, ja, mindestens welche Version aktualisiert werden?
Vitaly Kolesnik on April 6, 2007 at 15:41 #
Hello Alex,
Will this plugin work with wp mu?
Thank you
Alex Günsche on April 6, 2007 at 18:05 #
okg, es muss eine Version der 2.x-Serie sein; mit 1.5 funktioniert es (Rückmeldungen zufolge) nicht.
Vitaly, no this plugin does unfortunately not work with WPµ. But I guess it should be not too hard to adapt it. If you want, you can take the source (it’s GPLed) and build a µ version from it.
Stephan on June 20, 2007 at 00:34 #
Das Tool ist ja mal wieder echt Sahne.
So was kann ich gut gebrauchen.
Gruss
Sascha on July 5, 2007 at 13:37 #
Das nenn ich mal ein brauchbares Plugin.
Wenn doch nur andere Scripte auch solche Funktionen bieten würden.
Danke für den Tip.
Zahnersatz on September 18, 2007 at 12:13 #
Hab gerade gelesen, dass an 1.0 gearbeitet wird.
Soll zig neue Features bieten.
Ich freu mich schon drauf.
owl on September 19, 2007 at 03:30 #
hoffen wir mal das 1.0 bald rauskommt
Meteko on October 22, 2007 at 11:41 #
I did not know there is an instant upgrade for wordpress. I am currently using version 2.2. I did not know how to install wordpress also because there is a one click installation service provided by my hosting. Your post will definitely help me to upgrade to a newer version since wordpress keep coming out new version every 6 months.
Thank you.
Bahamut on October 26, 2007 at 05:07 #
A useful pluggin for those who are lazy to upgrade your wordpress and great for newbie too. Wordpress is the most user friendly CMS to date!
Margaret Crossin on January 7, 2008 at 18:02 #
Can you please help, I am in desperate need.
I tried installing your plugin and lost my entire site (www.saltypaws.co.uk).
I followed your directions with doing a backup with your other plugin, then uploads and changing permissions, when I clicked on the update button I got the error messages of permissions fails, BUT the major problem is my wp-contents and wp-adin folders completely dissappeared, do you have any idea what happened? Any idea how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Desperately,
Margaret
Margaret Crossin on January 7, 2008 at 18:10 #
(continued from the above comment)
Sorry not my wp-contents but my wp-admin and wp-includes folder.
I tried uploading new folders but now I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: stripos() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\saltypaws.co.uk\httpdocs\wp-includes\query.php on line 37
Any idea?
Alex Günsche on January 9, 2008 at 09:55 #
I don’t know *what* you’ve uploaded, but WordPress doesn’t use the function
stripos(). The error has nothing to do with InstantUpgrade, it rather says that you’re using a function which is not available in your PHP version.Joachim on February 15, 2008 at 21:53 #
das klingt ja einfach. ich teste das gleich mal
dll on March 28, 2008 at 03:22 #
I love it!! I don’t need to download&upload, boring,just click, good job! thank so much, I’ve looking for it everywhere.