The Instant Upgrade plugin for WordPress

Fully automatic upgrades of your WordPress blog

Current version: 1.0-beta2

Attention:

WordPress has an integrated upgrade feature since version 2.7, which has more features than Instant Upgrade. (Although I guess they had a closer look at Instant Upgrade when they developed the core updater. ). You can upgrade to WordPress 2.7 or higher using Instant Upgrade, but for future upgrades, you should use the integrated upgrade feature. This plugin is now obsolete. Thanks to all people who used it, gave feedback, endorsed and wrote about it, and donated some bucks.

Upgrading web applications is annoying – but not for WordPress users! Using the InstantUpgrade plugin, you can easily and safely upgrade your WordPress automatically, with a single click.

How does it work?

The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server. In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory. Finally, it runs the database upgrade script. That procedure is exactly what the official guide proposes, only 30 times faster and with you leaning back.

Is it safe to use?

Yes. The plugin interfaces are very intuitive, everything is well explained. Before the upgrade process, comprehensive checks are performed to ensure that nothing can be broken. As for security: The plugin cannot do anything that you or your webserver couldn’t do anyway. So, yes, it is safe to use. (However, bad things can *always* happen, so you should always have backups of your database and files.)

Installation

Attention:

Upgrading a web application is a critical task. And although InstantUpgrade is mature software, things could go wrong. Please be sure to have working backups.
This page features the new and very convenient version 1.0, but it’s not as well-tested as the older version 0.2, which you should use if you are rather unexperienced with web applications.
You should not use this plugin when you installed WordPress from third party sources (e.g. via Fantastico).

Download

as .tar.gz archive (105.2 kB)
as .zip archive (112.0 kB)

Have problems unpacking archives? Try the latest 7zip.

Please donate, using the form on the upper right of this page! You will support our efforts and receive a backlink!

Download it.
Unpack it and upload it into your WordPress plugins folder.
Activate the plugin in your admin panel.
Go to Options » InstantUpgrade and pick an upgrade method. FTP is usually recommended. See below for more about HTTP/FTP.
When the plugin says that you’re ready to upgrade, go to Manage » InstantUpgrade and start the upgrade process. The interface should be self-explanatory.

Upgrading from an older version

Although there is nothing specifially wrong with earlier versions, you might want to upgrade to the latest version. If you are upgrading from v0.2 or earlier to v1.0 or later, first open the file legacy/chmod.php in a text editor, read the instructions and follow them. Then delete the old plugin directory and proceed with a new Installation.

HTTP vs. FTP

InstantUpgrade offers two different methods for replacing your WordPress files: HTTP and FTP. With HTTP, the webserver will delete and insert all files. This works only on a small part of the web hosts, because usually the webserver and you (i.e. FTP user) are two different system users who are not allowed to modify each other’s files.

For you this means that if you select HTTP on the first configuration and the plugin says that all neccessary files are writable, you may use the HTTP method. If not, you should use the FTP method. If for some reasons you cannot or don’t want to use the FTP method and prefer HTTP, you must make your WordPress installation is writable by the webserver (only once; after the first upgrade with HTTP, the files are under control of the webserver).

Screenshots

Note: Click on the images below to see it in full size.

(Yes, the sceenshots show an upgrade from WP 2.3.3 to WP 2.3.3 – but that’s ok. InstantUpgrade can also be used to re-install your current version.)

Translations

There are no translations for v1.0 yet. Please have some more patience.

(As soon as the templates are ready, translators are very welcome! Please translate the file lang/iu.pot and send it in.)

Credits

PclZip by PHP Concept is used for unpacking the new WordPress package.
PemFTP by Alexey Dotsenko is used to perform FTP operations.
Some of the functions are derived from ideas by PHP.net users.

What else?

If you like this plugin and have an idea to improve it, please leave a comment below. If you have tested it successfully, please do also leave a comment (maybe with some specs about your environment). If you hate it for some reason, you shouldn’t keep that secret either.

That’s it! Have a lot of fun with the InstantUpgrade plugin!

If you enjoy this plugin, please support the development and donate some money!

In case you need individual, advanced support: Zirona also provides professional support for this software and its integration on your website (as well as WordPress support in general). Please don’t hesitate to contact us and ask about our services.

216 comments on “The Instant Upgrade plugin for WordPress”

Gene Steinberg on February 11, 2008 at 01:47 #

First test at www.macnightowl.com worked fine via FTP .

Thanks for the update.

BTW: What plugin do you use for tags?

Peace,
Gene
Alex Günsche on February 11, 2008 at 09:44 #

Hello Gene, thanks for your courage to be the first to test, and thanks for the feedback!

As for tags, I don’t use tags on this blog (it runs on the stable 2.0 series). But on another blog, I run Simple Tagging.
Matt - Alpha2Beta blog on February 12, 2008 at 14:14 #

Hi Alex, thanks for a great plugin.
I just installed your plugin and everything ran smoothly.

BTW, I will be making a donation, first I will write a post about the plugin, it deserves a good write up!

Thanks
Alex Günsche on February 12, 2008 at 15:14 #

Hi Matt, thanks for testing, too. And a donation sure would be nice!
Alex Günsche on February 12, 2008 at 18:17 #

NOTE to testers: The next days, there will be a second beta, which will no longer save the FTP password. Due to a discussion on this issue, I decided that it might be better, from a security view, not to save the password.
Alex Günsche on February 14, 2008 at 00:19 #

Ok. beta2 is out now. There are no big differences, except the FTP password is no longer saved on the server.
Betsy Finn on February 14, 2008 at 18:41 #

Hi Alex — nice plugin. I tried configuring using Firefox and the FTP configuration test failed without exception. Tried using your plugin with IE — and configuration test ran fine (as well as upgrade).

Aside from that hold-up, I’ve completed my WP upgrade and everything seems to be fine. Thanks!
Alex Günsche on February 14, 2008 at 18:51 #

Hi Betsy, thanks for your feedback! As for the Firefox miss, could it be that this was directly after selecting FTP, before you even entered any FTP data?
Betsy Finn on February 14, 2008 at 21:54 #

Alex —

I thought that could’ve been the case, but I did make sure to completely enter the FTP data (double-checked for correctness)… which still resulted in same failure.

The only thing I can think of is that I did recently download Firefox version 2.0.012 (just released 2/7/08)
Alf on February 15, 2008 at 12:36 #

Just what I needed right now Thank you so much!
Betsy Finn on February 15, 2008 at 23:55 #

Resolved the problem. It was due to having fireftp open in the same window (different tab) — once I closed the fireftp plugin, then I was able to use instant upgrade with firefox.

:D
chronicchick on February 16, 2008 at 07:44 #

Hi,
Will this tool replace any old wordpress versions? Ie I uploaded the new version and I don’t think I got rid of the old version? the admin panel is still saying I need to update… Ugh.. I am still learning wordpress? Is there a way to not mix the old with new.
Alex Günsche on February 16, 2008 at 12:04 #

Betsy, thanks for finding this out and reporting back! Let’s hope it will help other users, too.

chronicchick: The reason why you see that warning could be that your WordPress hasn’t updated this information yet.
chronicchick on February 17, 2008 at 00:17 #

Will downloading the instant upgrade take away what I don’t need and put in what I neeed?
Alex Günsche on February 17, 2008 at 12:41 #

chronicchick: Yes, when you perform a successful upgrade or reinstallation with the plugin, you will have an out-of-the-box WordPress (wp-content/ and wp-config.php are preserved, of course).
Paul on February 21, 2008 at 17:47 #

Instant Upgrade works as advertised, no problems! - Thank you.

After spending many hours building my site, I was aprehensive to upgrade Wordpress from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3, particularly after reading the upgrade path. Too much work. Found your plugin, took about a minute. Done.
danny on February 22, 2008 at 10:58 #

i am running an old version 2.03 i would like to upgrade but my host says i can’t cos the host cant handle the new version Is this true or not ?
Alex Günsche on February 22, 2008 at 14:23 #

danny: This is possible. WordPress 2.1 and higher need more higher PHP and MySQL versions. But you can use InstantUpgrade to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.11, which is the latest version of the still maintained 2.0.x branch of WordPress.
Jay McGillicuddy on February 23, 2008 at 02:08 #

I am receiving this error. Any help would be appreciated. i am using the HTTP method.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /hsphere/local/home/acemaker/jaymcgillicuddy.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/lib/pclzip/pclzip.php on line 162

Thanks Jay
Alex Günsche on February 23, 2008 at 10:47 #

You appear to have another plugin running that uses PCLZIP. Please deactivate that first.

Btw, it is not good that this other plugin always loads PCLZIP. It should load this huge piece of code only when it’s needed. Please send the author of that other plugin a message to revisit his code, so it loads this class only when it’s needed for a specific action of his plugin.
Jay McGillicuddy on February 24, 2008 at 18:02 #

Thank you, much appreciated.
Jay McGillicuddy on February 24, 2008 at 18:06 #

I forgot to deactivate all my plugins before I used your plugin and once I deactivated them all and only activated yours it worked like a charm.

Thank You, Jay
Chris on February 26, 2008 at 12:16 #

I successfully installed your plugin, but can’t seem to connect using FTP. The details are correct but an error message always appears saying that the plugin can’t create a “work folder within the plugin directory.

Any ideas?
Alex Günsche on February 26, 2008 at 12:57 #

Chris, could you please post the exact error message? Can you also tell me what kind of FTP server and operating system you have on your host (or give me a link, so I can try to find out myself)?
Rob Cubbon on February 28, 2008 at 19:32 #

HI Alex,
I’m getting “Setting host failed” – I’m sure my details are correct. Using Firefox and Safari on the Mac and have deactivated all other plugins.
Alex Günsche on February 28, 2008 at 19:37 #

What FTP server type do you have? can you connect to the server via Telnet? Is the FTP server reachable under the same hostname and IP?

Btw, I’ve taken the liberty to remove the advertising part from your “name”, and (as a little lesson), I’ve also removed your URL. Try it again, and I will feed you to Akismet.
Matt - Alpha2Beta Blog on February 29, 2008 at 18:47 #

Hi Alex, as promised I have made you a small donation to help you with future developments. Email me when you receive the payment and perhaps we can set up some good backlinks etc.
Cheers
Matt
Alex Günsche on February 29, 2008 at 19:08 #

Thank you very much for your (not so small) donation!
I sent you an e-mail.
Samuele on March 5, 2008 at 22:26 #

Hi Alex,

I wasn’t able to extract the .zip file. Could you pls help me?

Thanks,
Samuele
Robert Richard on March 8, 2008 at 13:39 #

Hello,

I need to update my wp-includes/languages (French WP) fr_FR.mo file. It seems that file mode want permit me to delete/replace the above file. How can I resolve.

Thanks for replying.
Alex Günsche on March 8, 2008 at 17:39 #

Put the languages/ folder into wp-content/.
NW on March 12, 2008 at 20:24 #

Hello Alex,

I can’t upgrade WP cause of following the error;

# Downloading file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip failed. HTTP status code: 13.
# Error: It was not possible to retrieve the remote file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip.

HTTP and FTP are the same result. http://wordpress.org/latest.zip is working via Firefox download, but via the instant upgrade plugin. Could you any advise to solve it?

Thanks,

Soleh
Francis on March 14, 2008 at 07:32 #

Hi Alex,

The problem i keep encountering is that the path to my WordPress installation seems to be incorrect. All the wordpress files are in a folder called ‘geils’, so in the FTP path to WordPress: box i put /geils/.
The error i get is: FTP configuration test failed.
The path seems to be incorrect, a WordPress installation was not found.
How do i write the correct path?

Thank you

Francis
Alex Günsche on March 14, 2008 at 12:04 #

Francis, I might not have understood you correctly: Is the directory /geils/ in your FTP root? You must enter the path relative to your FTP root, not relative to the vHost’s document root.
Wordpress blogs broken - Surpass Web Hosting Forums on March 18, 2008 at 15:35 #

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Robert Richard on March 19, 2008 at 00:15 #

Hello again,

Using current beta version and my 0.2 version, it says updated, but the WP is still version 2.3.3. What wrong%

Thanks for your support.
Alex Günsche on March 19, 2008 at 00:32 #

What option did you select, latest or arbitrary version? If you selected latest, then of course you will get 2.3.3, because wordpress.org/latest.zip is WP 2.3.3 at this time.
Adam Kayce on March 19, 2008 at 15:00 #

Awesome; it even worked with the 2.5-RC1 version. Great plugin!
Johannes Ries on March 19, 2008 at 15:07 #

Manueller Trackback: Deutsche Sprachdatei für InstantUpgrade - WordPress aktualisieren mit einem Klick
Wyn James on March 20, 2008 at 15:12 #

This plugin sounds great - but can you explain why it cannot be used with Fantastico setups? I initially installed WordPress using Fantastico. However, I had to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress manually - which was tedious. Ideally, in future I’d like to be able to use your plugin.

By the way, I’ve implemented your Advanced Search plugin and I think it’s great!
Alex Günsche on March 20, 2008 at 19:43 #

I once had a case where somebody tried to upgrade from Fantastico to regular WordPress and had a bad crash (luckily, he had good backups). As I cannot test with Fantastico myself, I can only warn people to try it.

However, if you already upgraded to regular WordPress, the plugin should work for you. I’d say, give it a try.
Marcos A.T. Silva on March 30, 2008 at 01:17 #

Hi,

The current version of InstantUpgrade works on WordPress 2.3.3, and upgrades it version to the final 2.5 released today?

Regards.
Alex Günsche on March 30, 2008 at 03:01 #

Of course.
matringe on March 30, 2008 at 10:12 #

Merci beaucoup pour votre application.
J’ai pu effectuer la mise à jour de Wordpress 2.5 sans aucun problème.
Zool on March 30, 2008 at 20:06 #

I really wondering if Wordpess Dev Team can integrate something like this with wordpress as default.
Drew on March 31, 2008 at 00:54 #

Hello Alex,
Great plugin. I just want to verify that using this plugin to upgrade to version 2.5 is confirmed to work fine? I saw someone ask it above, but their English is a little confusing.

Thanks,
Drew
Tristan on March 31, 2008 at 04:02 #

Hi Alex,

This looks like just the plugin I have been waiting for. Unfortunately, I keep getting the error, “Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip” when I try to upgrade. Everything before that point works fine. I have checked to make sure the /work directory is writable by the FTP user, and it is (permissions are set at 755). Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Tristan
Armando Macedo on March 31, 2008 at 15:36 #

I can not activate the plugin. It is in the WordPress plugins folder (localhost), but it is not visible at admin panel. Thank you or some help.
Filmbox on March 31, 2008 at 16:40 #

The update to wordpress 2.5 worked also like before without problem. Great plugin.
Betsy Finn on March 31, 2008 at 17:03 #

I just used this plugin to upgrade to WP 2.5 and it worked great (just like the time before). Thanks again, this plugin has saved me so much work!
http://blogger.hvbx.de/ on March 31, 2008 at 20:53 #

WordPress Update per Knopfdruck…

WOW! Ich bin restlos begeistert!
Seit der Veröffentlichung von WordPress 2.5 habe ich immer wieder überlegt, wann ich denn endlich das Update mache. Endgültig durchringen konnte ich mich aber nie, da ich einfach keine Lust auf die ganze Arbeit hatte…
Cynthia on April 1, 2008 at 00:11 #

I tried to download it, but it won’t let me unzip. It says that the file is corrupted!

Thanks
Michael Katz on April 1, 2008 at 10:06 #

This was fantastic. Easy to use, great instructions and a very simple way to upgrade. Thank you!!
Geoffrey hughes on April 1, 2008 at 23:39 #

F**k me. Upgraded from 2.3 to 2.5 in about 10 seconds. How easy was that.
Jürgen on April 2, 2008 at 12:58 #

Great plugin! It saved me lots of work, thank you!
Ray on April 2, 2008 at 18:38 #

website resolves OK, but log-in to admin panel after an errorless upgrade from 2.2, getting

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_delete_link() (previously declared in public_html/spinoff/wp-admin/admin-db.php:400) in /public_html/spinoff/wp-admin/includes/bookmark.php on line 43
Si on April 3, 2008 at 00:48 #

Awesome! Went from 2.3.1 to 2.5 with no problems.

The only hitch I had, which isn’t this plugin’s fault, was my host’s apache user is in a different group to my ftp user, so I had to change permissions on the instantupgrade directory to allow it to write to the work directory.
Björn on April 3, 2008 at 10:04 #

Hi Alex,

ich habe WP 2.33 auf 2.5 aktualisiert. Lief eigentlich auch fehlerfrei, aber das admin panel wird nicht mehr angezeigt. Den Aufruf zum Login bekomme ich in neuem Design, aber nach der Anmeldung bekomme ich unter Firefox nur noch nen weißen Bildschirm. IE7 schreibt: Die Website kann diese Seite nicht anzeigen. Woran kann das liegen?

Danke und beste Grüße
Björn
Lyus on April 3, 2008 at 17:46 #

Hi there,

i tested your Instantupgrade and it is great. Only one thing I want to ask:
Because of that I’m a German user I want Instantupgrade not to go for the english Version of wordpress. I want it to upgrade the german version from wordpress-deutschland.org
Where can I change the Source to do so?!?!
Thanks for a quick answer

greets Lyus
Alex Günsche on April 3, 2008 at 18:04 #

Tristan: I remember to have had the same problem on a host of mine. I’m investigating.

Ray: Please deactivate your plugins by temporarily renaming /wp-content/plugins/.

Björn: Bitte ebenfalls testweise /wp-content/plugins/ umbenennen.

Lyus: Die Version von WP Deutschland kann nicht verwendet werden, da die Struktur nicht mit dem originalen WordPress kompatibel ist. Es wird aber bald die Möglichkeit geben, die deutsche WP-Version von de.wordpress.org zu verwenden. Solange musst Du leider noch die englische Version benutzen. Es reicht aber, wenn Du einmalig das Verzeichnis /wp-content/languages/ anlegst und die deutsche Sprachdatei dorthineinkopierst.
whitetern on April 3, 2008 at 19:15 #

hi Alex,

My wordpress is setup on Yahoo web hosting service. do you think this plugin would work on it?
Björn on April 4, 2008 at 07:28 #

Guten Morgen zusammen. Alex, danke für die schnelle Antwort. Das Umbenennen des Plungins-Verzeichnisses hat leider seine Wirkung verfehlt. Kann das Problem mit der Serverkonfiguration zusammenhängen?
Baz L on April 4, 2008 at 12:20 #

Ever considered adding backup as a step in this process?
C Pagani on April 4, 2008 at 18:02 #

All the tests went fine but when I did the actual upgrade all I got was the “Performing upgrade…” notice with the spinning icon, for like 20 minutes now. All the warnings against closing the window scare me. But looking at my site by opening another window it appears that the old version of wordpress is still running without any problems.

Obviously, if my site survives this, I will have to do a totally manual upgrade.
Mark on April 5, 2008 at 00:44 #

I’m getting this error:

Abort pclzip.php : Missing zlib extensions

Any ideas what’s up? Thanks for any help you can offer!
Sidhu on April 6, 2008 at 03:21 #

It is sweet

Thanks

Just few clicks and its done

:-*

Sidhu
Jogos Online on April 6, 2008 at 10:02 #

Perfect, thanks a lot
Will Sagen on April 6, 2008 at 10:58 #

Prima Plugin! Vielen Dank!
(Leider ist mein Trackback wohl hängengeblieben)
Logi on April 6, 2008 at 14:15 #

I’ve copied the plugin into the plugin folder (zip and unpacked).
But I can’t see it in the plugin list. What am I doing wrong?

I also tried renaming the uploaded file with and without ending.

Thanks for help.

Regards Logi
Dick Smith on April 7, 2008 at 21:07 #

I tried to use instant upgrade and received this message.

Something to do with the provider, perhaps?

# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip
# The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.
Patricia on April 8, 2008 at 07:05 #

Hi!

This plug-in looks like just what I need. I have my blog on Yahoo Small Business, and even though the documentation says that there is a button for automatic upgrades it isn’t there (I guess old documentation?).

I heard that it’s difficult to upgrade on Yahoo, has anyone tried this plug-in there? (I’ll be upgrading from 2.2 to 2.5). How did it go?

Cheers,
P.
Celebrity on April 8, 2008 at 09:12 #

Fantastic plugin, It saved me lots of work, thank a lot.
Patricia on April 8, 2008 at 18:51 #

@Dick Smith
It sounds like you uploaded your plugin to the plugin folder as a zipped file (as the message you got includes the extension .zip). Did you unzip it before you uploaded it up to the plugins directory on your wordpress?
Samsung on April 9, 2008 at 02:54 #

I’m asking myself why the plugin is not able to use FILESYSTEM next to HTTP and FTP. Wouldn’t it be possible to provide this as the first of three methods?
Alex Günsche on April 9, 2008 at 09:35 #

Samsung: What do you think is the difference between “filesystem” and HTTP?
YoufulFill on April 9, 2008 at 14:39 #

This is a great plugin.
Kev on April 10, 2008 at 22:36 #

I keep getting this message
# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip
The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

Contrary to what Patricia thinks the .zip extension has nothing to do with the plugin being uploaded as a zip it is the extension of the wordpress installation that instant upgrade downloaded to install.

Why cant instant upgrade open the wordpress-2.5.zip?
Kev on April 10, 2008 at 23:31 #

Got this figured out
if you get this error :# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip

chmod the Work folder to 777 and it should work. then you can chmod it back when your finished.
Jerry on April 11, 2008 at 08:55 #

I see a few comments mentioning problems unzipping (amidst all the raves about how well the plugin works) but no answers. How about a little pity for those of us who seem to be clueless?
John Baker on April 11, 2008 at 12:36 #

I like this. It works quickly and easily once it’s set up. I just used it to upgrade to 2.5.
But I’m not sure how it works, even after reading the notes above. It obviously uploads and installs the new WP upgrade on my server, otherwise it wouldn’t work. But does it also put duplicates of those files on my own ‘local’ computer? Or do I have to do that?
Lamp on April 11, 2008 at 22:39 #

Dude!
You just rocked with this!
Congrats!
You solved my life!
Hours of pain just gone!
I used it with Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Win XP, from Wordpress 2.2.3 to 2.5 using http mode. Smoooooooth!

btw. Check your account at Paypal bro!
EgonO on April 12, 2008 at 12:22 #

I’ve installed a fresh 2.5 and wanted to Install the last InstantUpgrade Version from this Page but it dont appear on the plugin-page. any ideas (Plugins-Folder is readable by world)

Problem Solved!
Michael on April 16, 2008 at 08:41 #

For those of you having trouble unzipping the file try downloading it with a browser other than IE. I was getting errors unzipping the file so I tried downloading in Opera and the file unzipped with no problem.

Good Luck! Nice work Alex.
Michael on April 16, 2008 at 15:37 #

I’ve been trying to get this plugin to work but to no avail. When it starts in http mode everything seems fine but on the progress page I just see ‘Instant Upgrade’ at the the top of the page and the rest of the page stays blank. I have left the screen idle for 10 minutes just to make sure but nothing…

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Pierre-Nicolas on April 19, 2008 at 14:23 #

Just awesome ! Thank you so much !
Mssk on April 20, 2008 at 15:05 #

We use the old wp-images file for our post images (deprecated directory). Will your plug-in clobber that? Can you specify additional directories to retain without deleting?
Ryan Hupfer on April 25, 2008 at 23:50 #

Awesome plugin - worked like a charm. It worked so easy and so fast that I didn’t even know it was completed! haha
PhotoCrank thanks you!

Ryan
Dave on April 26, 2008 at 01:38 #

In FTP, pligins folder shows a slightly “ghosty-pale” folder icon for instant upgrade, but it’s not in the wordpress plugins page…only askimet and Hello Dolly.

What am I missing here?
arrianne on April 26, 2008 at 10:10 #

i would like to donate for you..cantact me please
Mike Haubrich, FCD on April 26, 2008 at 13:44 #

I am using Instant Upgrade to go from 2.5 to 2.5.1

I have deactivated all plug-ins and backed up both my database and content folders. I reactivated Instant Upgrade and tried to run the routine. I get this error message:

Error while extracting: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Before I go back to a standard upgrade, is there anything else I can do to make Instant Upgrade work?

I checked the Wordpress forum to see if anyone else had reported this problem, but couldn’t find anything yet.
andy on April 28, 2008 at 05:28 #

hi - i’ve downloaded both this new 1.0beta2 and the 0.2 versions and uploaded them into the wp-plugins folder (after unzipping of course), but still can’t see it in the plugins list. can you please advise? thank you.
Simon on April 28, 2008 at 10:49 #

I am trying to upgrade from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1.
I use the FTP method to upgrade. The Instant Update plugin shows that everything is fine with the upgrade (Result: Everything went smooth. Have fun with your new WordPress version!) , however it shows these two errors:

Warning: include(/home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin-footer.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 72

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin-footer.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 72

Now, when I get to the admin page of my blog, I see an empty page. As if some files in wp-admin/ got corrupted.

To fix, I need to refresh manually at least the wp-admin directory which enables the Admin pages in Wordpress. However, it appears I need to upgrade this time manually…
Guy on April 28, 2008 at 12:21 #

Hi Alex, thanks for this great plugin, I’ve used it on several sites and it’s very useful. The only problem is that now I am putting all my sites under version control with SubVersion and when I use this plugin it deletes the .svn folders which are in the wp-admin and wp-includes folders- is there any way of modifying the code to exclude the folders or setting permissions on them which will stop them from being deleted while the plugin upgrades WP?

thanks in advance

Guy
SciFiDrive on April 29, 2008 at 21:45 #

beautiful plugin I installed and upgraded to 2.5.1 in a minute. very smooth! thanks!
Hugo on May 1, 2008 at 18:39 #

This single plugin has saved me a LOT of time and several nervous breakdowns!!!

Thank you for developing this little lifesaver!!!

Greetz from Mexico!!!
phx on May 2, 2008 at 06:52 #

Hi,

perhaps you should add a note Download with Internet Explorer is not working correctly!
Only with FireFox you get the full archive.

greetz
netboarder on May 2, 2008 at 19:16 #

Vielen Dank! Genau das, wonach ich gesucht habe! Spart schließlich Arbeit am Wochenende! Sollte wirklich per default in Wordpress integriert sein!
usaf on May 3, 2008 at 03:29 #

wow. it made life so easy this is the greatest plugin of wordpress Thanks
franz tunda on May 4, 2008 at 00:47 #

Trying to upgrade to 2.5.1 with ftp method,

I am on the 110mb.com hosting server with the following setup

OS: Debian Linux
PHP Ver: 5.1.6
MySQL Ver: 5.0.27

I receive this error warning

socket_last_error() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in

Thanks for your help
Alex Günsche on May 4, 2008 at 01:56 #

The second part of the error message (saying in which file and line the error occured) is the actually interesting one.
Rollo on May 10, 2008 at 23:12 #

GREAT plugin I installed in a minute. vThanks for your help
Andy on May 17, 2008 at 19:54 #

Wow, this is amazing. I just updated from 2.1 to 2.5.1 (yeah, yeah, I know, lazy), and it went off without a hitch. I have about 8 plugins running, and after re-activating them, they all seem to be okey-dokey.
Nice job!
Maura on May 20, 2008 at 16:55 #

Brilliant! I also upgraded from 2.1 to 2.5.1 (Andy…you’re not the only lazy one!) It was a smooth and quick process!

Alex: Many Thanks! I blogged about the plugin as well as donated!

Take care,

~Maura
David Bennett on May 26, 2008 at 21:43 #

Excellent plug-in! I upgraded my personal blog to the newest Wordpress software, after being stuck with version 2.0.2 offered from Yahoo web hosting for the last two years. This plug-in is very helpful, and works with Yahoo Web Hosting (although I had to use the http upgrading method). Thanks!!!
Yunar on June 1, 2008 at 16:47 #

I use FTP method, i keep getting error “FTP configuration test failed.
Connecting to the FTP host failed.”
Could be this from the hosting company ?
I use servage.net
my target site is offerforus.com
TopWanted on June 7, 2008 at 03:00 #

Hi Alex! I wasn’t able to upgrade my wordpress ;(

Upgrade method: FTP.
Error details: # Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip
# The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

I checked /work/ directory but there was no latest.zip file I attached the latest version of WP manually and tried to upgrade my version again but no success.

Please help me to solve this problem. Thank you in advance.
Alex Günsche on June 7, 2008 at 12:25 #

TopWanted: I know this bug, I even had it on another site of mine; unfortunately, I haven’t found a fix yet (haven’t been searching to much, tough). Please expect an upgraded version during June.
Sharaz-Curve.Com on June 13, 2008 at 03:51 #

Hi Alex Gunsche,

Do we need to activate other plugin or just follow your instructions?

Cheers,
Sharaz-Curve.Com on June 13, 2008 at 04:02 #

Hi again,

I got this error;

Performing Upgrade …

* Upgrade method: FTP.
* Connecting to the FTP server …
* Login to FTP server.
* Setting mode to automatic ASCII detection.
* Setting mode to PASV.
* Downloading WordPress installation package …
* Downloading file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip was successful. Filesize: 1372351 bytes.
* Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip
* The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

How to fix it?
Josh on June 14, 2008 at 03:30 #

What a wonderfull plugin! So glad I stumbled upon it, I had a site running version 2.0.4, with so many errors. I was too concerned to try and manually upgrade it. I just sutmbled on your plugin and decided to give it ago, backed up everything first ran the setup and within under 1 minute it said it had completed. I checked the homepage and it looked exactly the same. Thinking it hadn’t worked I refreshed the admin and was welcomed with the fresh new admin colors.

Wow that was so easy thanks alot for the for the fantastic plugin!
Reid Walley on June 14, 2008 at 08:55 #

DUDE, your plugin totally ROCKS! I upgraded from WP 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 sans any difficulty:) It was super easy!
Make Money Talks on June 15, 2008 at 15:55 #

Wow great plugin, i just found it and it’s looking good!
Naseer on June 20, 2008 at 03:18 #

awesome neat tool kudos and i like the interface too. Takes away some of the scary stuff related to WP upgrades
Kathy on June 24, 2008 at 00:33 #

trying to use http method - plugin installed fine and then when I went to install the upgrade it seems like it’s stalling. it says “performing upgrade” for like 1/2 hour or more. how long should it take? it says “a minute or more”
So then I get impatient and hit the “Upgrade my wordpress” button it just goes abck to the “you need to upgrade” page.
I have yahoo hosting
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webguy on June 24, 2008 at 22:41 #

I can’t get past the “Connecting to the FTP host failed”. I can login via telnet or any standard FTP program, so not sure why the plugin has a problem.

Any thoughts?
webguy on June 25, 2008 at 21:36 #

For those of you who have the problem “Connecting to the FTP host failed” but are sure your FTP login credentials are correct, my host had to enable DNS doctoring on the firewall to get it to work.

That solved the FTP login problem, but now the script error is stating

“The path seems to be incorrect, a WordPress installation was not found.”

My Wordpress installation is at the root so the path is correct (left it blank) so any ideas on how to correct this error?
webguy on June 25, 2008 at 21:57 #

I fixed the above problem by adding “/httpdocs/” to the FTP path and it worked. Hope this helps someone else.
CyberCr33p on July 2, 2008 at 19:15 #

Thank you for this great plugin.
turk rap on July 2, 2008 at 22:20 #

I receive this error warning
Seren on July 3, 2008 at 10:58 #

It worked just fine! Thank you so much, a seamless upgrade! I found out about your plugin in at the SurpassHosting blog.
Money Ideas on July 3, 2008 at 16:06 #

I’m so glad I found this plug in. I have been waited for 14 months to upgrade my blog but I was afraid to do it!
Thank you
Kim Bornhoft on July 8, 2008 at 21:02 #

Hi,

I’m new to all this. Exactly what fle do I upload in the Wordpress plugin folder? And I do that on the Yahoo file upload section of the Yahoo Small Business…correct?
Ashley on July 8, 2008 at 21:45 #

I was able to get the InstantUpgrade plug-in on my WordPress blog, but when I go to “Options” and then click on “InstantUpgrade” I am met with this: The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.

The web address is: http://site.creativekidstuff.com/blog/wp-admin/instantupgrade/admin_config.php

Help please!
Mark LaFlamme on July 16, 2008 at 07:35 #

With 2.6 upon us, I would absolutely love for this plug in to work. Like it did when I went to 2.5, Instant Upgrader simply fails to work in either http or ftp mode. Http is most frustrating. It okays all the settings. It goes through as though something is happening, takes roughly 30 seconds to load and then… nothing. Just a blank site admin page and no change at all. If anyone else has experienced this, I’d love to hear about it.
styleguerilla on July 18, 2008 at 09:49 #

Hi Alex

Same here:

Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip

Found a fix yet? Seems to be a great pluggin, besides from that

Cheers!
Heman on July 18, 2008 at 12:16 #

thx for ur effort, wonderful plugin, really fast and easy!!!

Nice Job!!
David on July 18, 2008 at 13:28 #

Thanks for this great plugin. I managed to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6, however, the last part there I met some error with the upgrading of the wordpress database. Basically I had wordpress in another folder instead of my root directory, but InstantUpgrade could not detect….the fix was simple though as I just needed to add the directory name into the URL and tada.

Thanks
Mentalacrobatics on July 21, 2008 at 09:58 #

Thanks for this amazing plugin!

For those experiencing the following error:

Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip

try changing the permissions on /wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/ to 777
jon payne on July 22, 2008 at 05:09 #

FTP would not work, could not connect to ftp server. “connecting to the ftp host failed”. I verified my ftp settings with filezilla which works fine, and used the same login, password and domain name.

HTTP looked like it was working but then it hung at a blank page, no error messages, and the website was not upgraded.

Help??

PS; tried with both firefox and IE.
looks like the same issue as Mark LaFlamme above.
jon payne on July 22, 2008 at 05:32 #

BTW, I would be happy to let you look over my shoulder via GoToMeeting, where you could see my screen and watch the process. all I need is an email address and a time so I can send you a meeting invitation.
Charlie on July 25, 2008 at 04:27 #

Thanks for the instant upgrade plug-in. It worked great!
nils on July 28, 2008 at 17:09 #

I used fantastico to install wordpress, is there no way how I can still use this great plugin?
Dan on July 29, 2008 at 08:17 #

I use this plugin with fantastico with no probs whatsoever.
Just use fantastico for the initial setup then leave it alone and use this plugin to upgrade. No probs at all …..so far . I used the http option.
Gunawan on August 1, 2008 at 01:04 #

Thanks you for your sharing the plugin.
Peter John Louie on August 7, 2008 at 13:48 #

Hello!

Tech support help please. =)

I installed the plugin and successfully connected to FTP. Finally, when I click “upgrade my wordpress!” on
http://pjlguy.webservant.us/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=instantupgrade/admin_run.php, I see a little error on my IE bar (bottom left corner warnings), and then the next page displays “InstantUpgrade” text but remains blank below this and for most of the page. The URL remains http://pjlguy.webservant.us/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=instantupgrade/admin_run.php

Thanks,
Peter
smith on August 8, 2008 at 18:38 #

hi,
thanks first - i believe this is a great plugin!

got a new error msg, kind of getting boring here, isn’t it

* Upgrade method: FTP.
* Connecting to the FTP server …
* Login to FTP server.
* Setting mode to automatic ASCII detection.
* Setting mode to PASV.
* Downloading WordPress installation package …
* Downloading file http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.zip was successful. Filesize: 1511562 bytes.
* Extracting WordPress package wordpress-2.6.zip …
* Error: Directory with new WordPress files doesn’t exist.
* The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

any idea?! thanks!
Björn on August 16, 2008 at 12:31 #

Is there any way to use that plugin without disable php safemode?
Alex Günsche on August 16, 2008 at 13:10 #

Björn: several users reported they were able to use IU despite the Safe Mode. You can try hacking the plugin and disable the Safe Mode checks, but don’t blame me if you break your WordPress installation.
David Kabal on August 16, 2008 at 17:20 #

I upgraded my site using InstantUpgrade… No problems. I upgraded my wife’s site using InstantUpgrade. It *said* everything went smoothly. Then I got a few blank pages. I went to the wp-admin subpage, it said “Database Upgrade Required”. I clicked the button to Upgrade WordPress, then a WP logo on a blank page. I’ve tried multiple times, the site is still down (cassie.kabal.org) and nothing is happening. Please help.

Thanks,
Dave
Alex Günsche on August 16, 2008 at 18:25 #

David, please try deactivating all plugins (temporarily rename the plugins directory) and try again. If that doesn’t help, please try switching to the default theme (rename all other themes in themes). Please let me know if that helped.
David Kabal on August 19, 2008 at 07:32 #

Alex:

Now another site is down (david.kabal.org) after using IU to upgrade from 2.6 to 2.6.1. (i.e., my previous report saying david.kabal.org was working was premature)

I tried all the steps you recommended (I e renamed plugins, renamed all other themes other than default).

I’m really quite down now with both websites not working. Help would be much appreciated!

I can’t get into the admin page, or indeed anything else. Everything is blank!

Thanks,
Dave
David Kabal on August 19, 2008 at 07:42 #

Update…. It appears ALL my websites are down…. (even those using another CMS) Seems to be just a coincidence that this occurred after InstantUpgrade. Sorry for the trouble.
David Kabal on August 19, 2008 at 18:54 #

OK, got my site back up and working (problem turned out to be an upgrade AND a host problem). For anyone else experiencing the following series of events, here’s the symptoms and solutions:

- Upgrade using Instantupgrade
- Try to connect to admin “database needs to be upgraded”
- Click “upgrade”
- Blank WP logo

No pages or content anywhere. Per Alex:

- rename plugins to plugins-
- Try to connect to admin “database needs to be upgraded”
- Click “upgrade”
- Succeeds
- rename plugins- back to plugins
- reactivate plugins

Cheers,
Dave
Christoph on August 24, 2008 at 06:29 #

thats the coolest thing!
moolahking on August 28, 2008 at 16:55 #

So sorry using your contact form to ask for support.

Hi,

Such a great plugin you have. Unfortunately, i was unable to configure my FTP account data after filling all the required fields. Can i know what’s went wrong?

I’ve input all the corrects data in it. But the message prompt “FTP configuration test failed” when i clicked ‘test and save’ button.

Oh, can you specify which wordpress files that i need to make it FTP writable? I already change all the file attributions to writable but again, it didn’t work.

Really need your help. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for your attention.
Joachim on September 3, 2008 at 17:26 #

This plugi is the most useful plugin for WP!!
rafa on September 4, 2008 at 19:05 #

Great job, I’ve been stuck with Wordpress Automatic Update for a while. Due to a function call prohibition of my server I was unable to use that plugin. I googled a little and find your Wordpress Instant Update. Installed it and it works great. I’ve used it on all 4 of my sites, where 3 of them are in other languages, the wp software i mean.
Thanks for the awesome job…
Alex Lover on September 9, 2008 at 17:13 #

InstantUpgrade is very useful plugin, because it save my time every month! Thank You for you for this!!!
isee1 on September 9, 2008 at 21:44 #

I have been using your plugin without disabling my plugins.

Could I be messing something up by doing it?

Thanks btw for a great plugin
ovidiu on September 10, 2008 at 09:13 #

seems ok with http update, but it says its working directory is not writeable, but when I click on “show details” which might help me make adjustments, the link leeds nowhere
Danillo Nunes on September 10, 2008 at 18:16 #

A small cosmetic bug: I have my WordPress core files in another directory than my blog (blog URL is: danillonunes.net and WPURL is: danillonunes.net/wordpress), so the loading image doesn’t appear.

The solution I find is to change the line 49, in init.php, get_bloginfo(’siteurl’) to get_bloginfo(’wpurl’)
ovidiu on September 10, 2008 at 19:38 #

forgot to mention my install is also in a directory, not in the root itsself
Chris on September 11, 2008 at 15:41 #

Help! I just tried using this plugin and it failed:

Warning: main(/homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/import.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 8

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/import.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 8
Annys on September 11, 2008 at 19:51 #

Hi! It’s a great plugin but… there seems to be a problem with loading the page. I can’s see my website anymore…
I can still log into admin and it looks so nice (wp 2.6.2). I used 2.2.3 before…
Help please?
explorerpro on September 11, 2008 at 22:13 #

I upgrade from v2.3.1 to v2.6.2

Don’t scare!
- Backup all file , download to local
- Back up DB
- Deactivate all plugin
- Upload it into your WordPress plugins folder
- Change cmod this folder to 777
- Activate the plugin
- I use HTTP
- done!
Tommi on September 14, 2008 at 07:27 #

Hi there

I’d like to ask what’s relative path as my wordpress is subdirectory (www.domain.com/blog/).

I have tried
/blog/
blog/
www.domain.com/blog/

All failed to pass the FTP test…

Thanks and looking forward for the response…

Tommi
Pedro Couto e Santos on September 14, 2008 at 23:15 #

Thank you, this plugin completely fucked up my site, I am reinstalling WordPress by hand as I write this.
Dave on September 15, 2008 at 07:31 #

I suppose I should have thought about it beforehand but this plugin totally tore down my wordpress MU site.
this plug in needs to check for the version of existing WP and what flavor the files are and alert the user before any destructive actions are taken.
shame really as it looks quite good.
i’m not that annoyed as the site was still being built up, but that is a serious fault in the plugin not being able to figure out the correct for either the latest MU or single user built.
Jennifer on September 19, 2008 at 18:54 #

So just that I am clear.

If we use the this InstantUpgrade plugin, it was mentioned that

“when you perform a successful upgrade or reinstallation with the plugin, you will have an out-of-the-box WordPress (wp-content/ and wp-config.php are preserved, of course).”

What happens to all the contents of our blog and all the other plugins we use. Will all that information still be there?
Jennifer on September 19, 2008 at 18:57 #

Tommi

Try /public_html/blog

Hope this helps.
Cremo on September 21, 2008 at 23:19 #

Hello, I want wear this plugin but:

Result:
Unfortunately, there have been errors while performing the upgrade.

Error:
Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/a5532271/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/classes.php on line 584

Please, help me!
Sjoerd on September 22, 2008 at 21:42 #

I got this error:
“Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip”

However:
Chmodding the directory wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/ to 777 solved the problem.

Great plugin! Automatic Upgrade plugin did not work but this one is now doing the trick!
Web Systems on September 24, 2008 at 18:42 #

Hello

“Your site configuration is not ok.
Connecting to the FTP host failed.”

I spent 30mins with my server administrator. He even turned off the firewall. Still not working. Server is dedicated P4 with FreeBsd.

Logs showed nothing. Any idea what I should check to find the problem?

regards,
Chris
Tom M. on October 11, 2008 at 21:20 #

Wow, super. I upgraded my Wordpress 2.5 to 2.6.2 without ANNY issues. Just put the path to /public_html/ and it did all the work.

Thank you very much for this great plugin.
Tom
justin on October 17, 2008 at 00:38 #

Upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6.2 in about 18 seconds… wow!

Nice job!

Deactivated all other plugins

Changed attributes for “wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/” to 777

Re activate plugins

Bob’s yer uncle…
ashley on October 23, 2008 at 09:22 #

Hi there,
I’am a bit nervous about upgrading from 2.3.1 so I have a question. It says that “….. it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory.”

On my Ftp I have additional folders such as Archives, Audio, Images, Video, wp-admin, wp-includes and wp-music outside of the wp-content folder. Does that mean that the upgrade will delete all of these other folders except wp-content and wp-config.php??? Is there anyway to prevent this?

Sorry Im not that advanced with the back end stuff. Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks
Alex Günsche on October 23, 2008 at 09:31 #

The plugin creates a list of files known to belong to WordPress.
ashley on October 23, 2008 at 10:25 #

sorry im not clear. will i lose all the folders outside of the wp-content and wp-config.php when i upgrade?
Alex Günsche on October 23, 2008 at 10:33 #

Of course not. The plugin deletes: wp-admin, wp-includes, all files files starting with wp- (except wp-config.php) and a few other files known to belong to WordPress. As it is quite common to have other content than the WordPress files in one’s base directory, the plugin would be rather pointless if it deleted all these, wouldn’t it?
Dainty on October 29, 2008 at 14:10 #

Nice one ALex,

I have just done a full upgrade of my website, using your plugin - this was the easiest thing that I have done with wordpress (Respect).

The only issue I had was working out the ftp path. Other than that - awesome. This should be included in the core build of wordpress, without a doubt.

Keep up the good work man
Ken Pemberton on November 6, 2008 at 19:28 #

Awesome plugin! Was trying to do the usual manual upgrade and getting something horribly wrong somewhere. While looking for support I stumbled across your little toy. Rolled back to the previous version, installed the plugin, ran the upgrade…. smooth as silk! Upgraded via HTTP as I was too lazy to look up my FTP details, and no problems at all, so I’ll probably just leave it there.

This was, IMHO, the one major omission from WP. After all, WP’s plugs can auto-upgrade, why not the main software itself? Well done closing that hole!
Randy C on November 24, 2008 at 17:02 #

Haas this been tested with 2.7 yet? I know it’s only in beta, but supposed to be out soon.

Thanks.
susan on December 4, 2008 at 00:34 #

This was awesome - thanks! I was still on 2.3 or something, now upgraded to 2.6.5.

Just FYI for any other newbies, I selected FTP and that did not work for me, so then I chose the HTTP version and that worked for me right away.

Wow this was fast - thanks!!!
Danny on December 5, 2008 at 23:54 #

Add me to the get this error club =(

“Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip”

I changed all attributes to 777 and still I get this error.

Anyone found a fix yet?

The only thing I can think of is that i am using a Linux server and maybe it can’t unzip files?
MN on December 6, 2008 at 10:09 #

Hi, as i clicking Install instant upgrade in wordpress, I am getting 404 error. My server host is yahoo. Please guide me how can I do that?
MN on December 6, 2008 at 10:21 #

hi alex,
attaching the error address:
This is yahoo web hosting.
Please help me.
http://fbfindia.com/mn/wp-admin/instantupgrade/admin_config.php
Danny on December 8, 2008 at 19:13 #

I chmod the work directory to
777 then it worked.

Hope this helps!
quixote on December 12, 2008 at 20:28 #

Eagerly awaiting word on 2.7. I’m not touching WP’s bizarre notions of upgrading without InstantUpgrade! Any brave souls out there tried it?
Tom Husband on December 13, 2008 at 05:05 #

Beautiful! I really dreaded upgrading to 2.7 but with InstantUpgrade it was so easy. Thanks much. Donation on its way.

Tom
Dick Kirkland on December 14, 2008 at 17:16 #

Awesome, Awesome!
I’ve used this plug-in before.
It now works with 2.7!
Thanks for all of the time saved in the many upgrades that are needed with WP.
Great Work.
Sincerely,
Dick
AlvinTardy on December 15, 2008 at 11:22 #

Yes! Succesfuly upgraded my site to WP 2.7.

This plugin performs configuration/permission checks before it does anything, which makes it better.

Thanks!
Liz on December 16, 2008 at 02:52 #

I’m pretty far behind with upgrades, would I have a problem using instant upgrade going from ver 2.3.2 to 2.7?
Tom Husband on December 16, 2008 at 06:29 #

Can InstantUpgrade be used to install a down rev version? I’m having real problems with the image uploader in 2.7 and want to go back until it’s sorted out.

Thanks,

Tom
Mitch4 on December 17, 2008 at 18:31 #

The latest IU is refusing to run for me, citing safe_mode. However, though I have safe_mode on for the server globally, it is off locally for our WP directories. (displayed at http://blogs.cuip.net/practice/stevenl/phpinfo.php) Can you suggest a workaround?

BTW, we were using version 0.1 or so, and successfully upgraded several WP installations to 2.7. However, we had to manually deactivate plugins, and were told the newer versions of IU would handle the deactivation and subsequent reactivation. Nice touch!

Is there perhaps an intermediate version still available, that does the plugins deactivation but does not use the global safe_mode check?

Thanks!

==mitch4
ChrisR on December 17, 2008 at 20:58 #

I use Transmit, changed all permissions on folders and contents as directed.

Tests my ftp username and pw fine, but when I click upgrade, get this message:
Your FTP account appears not to be set up correctly

Well, that’s totally unilluminating. What do I do to fix it?
Kevin on December 18, 2008 at 03:34 #

I have to say amazing plugin, even though been warned not to use this for Fantastico installations, I would just like to say it worked for me even with my Fantastico installation.
andy on January 12, 2009 at 06:09 #

Hi - I used it successfully before, but the upgrade to WP2.7 said it worked - but when i tried to log in, my old login credentials won’t work anymore. Any idea?
David on January 15, 2009 at 14:08 #

Fantastic. I just upgraded my site.

I used FTP mode and I had an error message saying:
# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip

With my FTP programs I did CHMOD the work directory to 777

I worked 100% after that.

Thanks a lot!!
Andrew on January 17, 2009 at 02:18 #

What a great plugin! I tested it on an old blog I no longer used and it woked like a dream.
My main blog contains thousands of posts and was only version 2.2 so I was a little reluctant. I bit the bullet and gave it a shot.
Like others, it didn’t work till I chmod the ‘work’ directory to 777…then it worked like a dream!
quixote on January 22, 2009 at 05:44 #

It took me a while to get around to it. Just wanted to leave another successful upgrade report. This was from 2.5 to 2.7.

One note: it may just be something about my ISP, but the upgrade process took about an hour. There was no indication ahead of time that it would take forever, and the progress bar reached about 80% quite quickly. Then it just stayed there. It looked like it had hung. But I vaguely remembered that the same thing had happened to me last time, so I just waited for, as I say, over an hour.

Don’t give up!

It might be nice if the major steps were echoed to the screen, or there was a real progress bar, so that we knew *something* was happening
twister on January 22, 2009 at 08:35 #

I’ve installed the plugin on one of my websites and it worked no problem using http. However when I attempted use the plugin on a different site I’m faced with a screen that looked nothing like the one on my other site or the screenshots you have above - any ideas? Despite this it still tells me i can upgrade via http but when I click the upgrade link it instantly reloads to a page just showing upgrade your word, change the configuration.
cfscare on February 8, 2009 at 21:22 #

Many thanks for such a useful plugin.

I understand that WordPress 2.7 now has a built-in instant-upgrade feature. If I plan to use that for future upgrades, does anyone know whether it’s safe to remove this plugin (and to restore the original file modes)?

Or does the upgrade feature in 2.7 require any of this functionality in order to work? I asked this on the WordPress forums and, strangely, got no response. Thanks.
Tony on February 24, 2009 at 01:29 #

I feel like the dumbest guy online right now.
I can’t get the upgrade to work.
I’m using WP ver. 2.65 from a Fantastico installation.

I could have sworn I’d done it a couple of months ago and it worked then suddenly I’m getting an error:

Oops!!!!! We are unable to connect to the ftp site with the data your provided, could you cross check and give us the data again

I verified my username and password from the initial installation and I’ve tried using www.peacewarrior.be as well as ftp.peacewarrior.be and I keep getting the same error.
I’ve added the directory name to the ftp with and without a slash.
I’ve tried Safari as well as Firefox - same error.
I use Dreamweaver and am using the same info I use there but still no luck.

I’ve chmod permissions to the /informed folder as well as the instant upgrade folder to 777 and still nothing.

Thank you,

Tony
Mukesh Dak on February 25, 2009 at 06:47 #

home I could not use this, as save button on FTP/http take me to this blank page.

http://mukeshdak.com/wp-admin/admin.php
KiNG on February 25, 2009 at 13:30 #

sorry im not clear. will i lose all the folders outside of the wp-content and wp-config.php when i upgrade?
Steve Axworthy on March 6, 2009 at 22:10 #

Just donated.. this plug-in has saved me so many headaches and so much time (Used on several clients blogs)

Thank you SO much!
Steve
Jon on March 12, 2009 at 06:52 #

I used it to upgrade my 944 Turbo Resource from 2.5 to 2.7.1. It worked fantastically well!
quixote on March 28, 2009 at 04:48 #

Guess what? This plugin is NOT obsolete. The built in auto upgrade feature doesn’t work in all kinds of cases. And the WP Forum moderators just point out that it’s a feature, not a bug. All the help they seem to have to offer is “Get used to it.”

So, for lots of us, this is still the only alternative. Please don’t give up on this great plugin!
frmcuk on June 15, 2009 at 21:53 #

This was fantastic. Easy to use, great instructions and a very simple way to upgrade. Thank you!!
konut on July 11, 2009 at 15:30 #

’m getting “Setting host failed” – I’m sure my details are correct. Using Firefox and Safari on the Mac and have deactivated all other plugins.:)
online oyun on July 28, 2009 at 19:14 #

Thank you for bringing such a nice plugin for the community.
online oyun on July 29, 2009 at 18:28 #

Thanks for posting about this, I would like to read more about this topic.
Albert on August 5, 2009 at 19:48 #

Does the Plugin exist in german?
Robert on August 9, 2009 at 21:34 #

Great plug-in. Got me from WP 2.6 to 2.83. My initial install was via Fantastico, and that wasn’t a problem (although maybe it resulted in the difficulties I had?).

I had to try it repeatedly — I was having the same problem as NW — it said it couldn’t download the latest version of WP from their server. I uploaded the zip file to the plugin’s work directory. Still got errors (with both the HTTP and FTP configs). Tried setting permissions for the instantupgrade and work directories to 777. No luck. Tried setting the WP zip file to 777 and that worked. It only took a few minutes once I got it working.
V-Pills on September 6, 2009 at 14:10 #

very very thanks admin
V-Pills on September 6, 2009 at 14:16 #

thanks admin
PiErO on September 10, 2009 at 18:24 #

This plugin it-is compatible with wordpress 2.8.4 ?? i want to update from version 2.7.1
Reklam on December 21, 2009 at 21:16 #

Thanks Administrator
paslanmaz korkuluk on December 24, 2009 at 13:19 #

thank you thank you
paslanmaz küpeşte on December 24, 2009 at 13:20 #

thank you thank you
paslanmaz Cagdas on December 24, 2009 at 13:20 #

thank you thank you
Cagdas metal paslanmaz on December 24, 2009 at 13:21 #

thank you thank you
Wade Shaw on January 21, 2010 at 04:26 #

Upgrade from 2.05 to 2.9.1. It went smooth with no problems at all. GREAT Plugin. Thank you. I used the FTP method as the http method test reported some file permission issues. I set the ftp path to “/public_html/ as that is where my main wordpress is installed.
Fam.Hausmann on February 8, 2010 at 12:24 #

Thank you very much for the plugin!
haritaburada on March 5, 2010 at 20:59 #

Hi,, Thanks for such a usefull plugin.

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