How to Upgrade Your Plugins (and How to Know When They Need It)

Posted March 9, 2009 · Filed Under How To · 666 views · 3 Comments

upgrade_plugins WordPress, itself, is not the only easy upgrade process available to you these days. All of the plugins you have installed on your site/blog are easy to upgrade, as well. I want to say this automatic upgrade capability came along with version 2.5 or 2.6, but you know, I just can’t remember. Matters not – it’s here now, and it’s a beautiful thing.

Keeping your plugins upgrade to their latest versions is just as important as keeping WordPress, itself, upgraded. Check out this 3-minute video to see just how dead simple this is! (If you’re reading this through the feed, please click through to the site to see the video.)

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3813 Responses2009-03-09+11%3A30%3A03Suzanne to “How to Upgrade Your Plugins (and How to Know When They Need It)”

Geri@Niche SEO
March 12th, 2009 1:31 pm

That was easy as 1 2 3.It’s not something that we think about managing on a regular basis so you’ve inspired me to go in and take a look at my site. Thanks for sharing.

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Brad Hart
March 19th, 2009 2:54 pm

The most important thing about plugin upgrades in my opinion is unless it is a security risk, don’t do it the first day. The second thing is make sure you know if something is being changed. There are several plugins in my arsenal that are a few upgrades back, because the upgrades affect functionality.

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Real Estate Marketing Blogger Tim
April 6th, 2009 10:14 pm

I think having to replace a plugin after the developer abandons it is the biggest pain when a wp blog updates.