WP-Manage: Automatic backups and upgrades
Alex Günsche · January 20, 2007
WP-Manage is a management extension (not plugin) for WordPress, which will perform backups and upgrades each with a single click.
The Backup routine creates a MySQL dump of the WP tables, gathers all WP files and puts all this stuff into a nice zip file. The Upgrade routine downloads the latest WordPress, 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 WP-Manage package, together with some nice third-party-libs.
The backup and the upgrade routine are independent from each other, and it is to say that the upgrade feature might not be the right thing for every one. But e.g. if you installed WordPress for a friend or a customer with no knowledge of FTP, PHP and MySQL, you might find an ideal solution in this upgrade feature.
Documentation, screenshots and downloads are available at the WP-Manage homepage. Feedback is very apprechiated.
Update: There was an unfortunate error in the file upgrade.php: The latest WordPress was not downloaded from wordpress.org, but from zirona.com (this server). This is because I didn’t want to bomb wordpress.org with requests during the development. Unfortunately I forgot to replace the reference to my server with the original download source, so the WP-Manage version distributed until this evening (GMT) downloads from zirona.com. The error was corrected and the package was uploaded again. You can either download WP-Manage again or you change http://www.zirona.com/download/ to http://wordpress.org/ in upgrade.php l. 290. Sorry for the confusion and thanks to Fabrice Pascal for the hint.
