WordPress upgrade with svn sw

Most likely, it’s time to upgrade your instance of wordpress (given their releases are every couple weeks). The new built-in automatic upgrade works if you make your blog owned by the apache user, but if you have any local changes, they get blown away by the upgrade. If you use subversion, your changes stay AND you get the security patches. To install via subversion, first follow these steps.

Before you upgrade, always backup your database and blog code:

Then upgrade. Note that switching from 2.7.1 to 2.8 isn’t just a “svn switch” — you must svn update first.

The next time you hit the wp-admin page, it will upgrade the db and you’ll be done.

Note that if you see

you should use this svn sw command instead:

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Update November 15, 2008: 2.6.5 is out. See installing wordpress using subversion.

Update December 14, 2008: 2.7 with new admin UI hotness

Update June 15, 2009: 2.8 requires an svn update

Update July 9th, 2009: 2.8.1

Update July 22nd, 2009: oye, 2.8.2

Update Aug 4th, 2009: oye, 2.8.3

Update Aug 17, 2009: 2.8.4

Update Oct 20, 2009: 2.8.5

Update Nov 15, 2009: 2.8.6

Update Jan 2010: 2.9.1

Update March 2010: 2.9.2

Update July 2010: 3.0

Update Fall 2010: I give up. It’s easier to just use the wordpress upgrade system, even though it deletes your changes.

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