WP3.7 Update Fails to Complete

Are you able to do a manual upgrade through FTP?

Just reading through that and looking at my FTP access to be sure I’m up to the job ?? …. before I start.

OK, so I have offline back-ups of both the mySQL db (XML export) and the wordpress files. And I have all the WP3.7 files unzipped ready to go.

BUT, the read-me says delete all existing WP files and then upload the new 3.7 files, and then I will still need to hit wp-admin/upgrade.

How am I going to have anything but a new WP install ? I’ll then need to manually redo ALL theme edits and plug-in installs …. ?

(This is the first time in 7 or 8 years the auto-update has failed.)

Hmmm. Still very very scary. I think I’ve succeeded in a manual update and reconnected the blog database. (The wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes directories contain ONLY WP3.7 files, and the only php files in the root are those from WP3.7 – ALL other previously edited / active files are tucked-away in a holding directory. I left all static html and media file content alone so far.)

Blog shows up in default theme, so quite a lot of other content invisible, and only the default page links. Every media or content file link seems to be broken and every selected page links in side-bar and header invisible.

The admin dashboard still has a few bugs.

It still says the update was incomplete, asking that I re-attempt the auto-update? Where is it getting this status data from – is it in the database?

It still says I have 3 plug-in updates waiting, even though the plug-ins page says I only have Akismet and Hello Dolly (latest) installed.

This feels more like starting from scratch than an upgrade. Lots to do to re-build the site. (All I can say positively is that my 12 years worth of database contents – excluding static files – seem to be intact.)

Question – as a long term Dreamhost VPS user of WordPress, am I right in thinking my multi-blog(otherwise free) WP usage does generate WP income?

With the 3.7.1 bug-fix – the upgrade has now successfully completed so far as I can tell from the dashboard. (I still have to rebuild all non-post content with new themes / widgets etc, as a consequence of the failed 3.7 upgrade, but this ticket is no longer relevant.)

I have 7 site running WP 3.7.1 – Four of them updated find and three I get
(An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now). There is no content or files in my upgrade folder and no maintenance file in the root directory.
I have checked all setting on server and they are the same. I setup three more site to test with and two of them update fine and one failed.
I set them up in this order.
https://xxxxxx.xxx/Site/test1/
https://xxxxxx.xxx/Site/test1/test2/ (failed)
https://xxxxxx.xxx/Site/test1/test2/test3/

Test site two (test2) failed ????

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