WordPress upgrade with svn sw

Most likely, it’s time to upgrade your instance of wordpress (given their releases are every couple weeks).

Backup the db and code:

mkdir -p ~/.archive
mysqldump blog | gzip > ~/.archive/blog-$(date '+%Y%m%d').sql.gz
cd ~/public_html ; tar czf ~/.archive/blog-$(date '+%Y%m%d').tgz blog

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

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cd ~/public_html/blog
svn update
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.8.3/
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The next time you hit the wp-admin page, it will upgrade the db and you’ll be done.

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