houghkc

I’m using X Theme so a widely used theme but they do have a few newer versions out as well. All of this should be fine, I’m not really worried about it anymore, as what you guys both said. I’m just confirming the back way to executing the update if I don’t have the ability to start it from inside the wp-admin dashboard. I know you can drag and drop versions into the folders but is there anything that I need to keep from the original wordpress directories admin, include, content (other than the themes)… Thanks again.

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@autotutorial so yeah I would love to use something else, you mean WordPress Version and some potentially incompatible plugins, correct? The problem is that in my Dashboard I can’t click on update. I will have to manually update it. What’s the best way or smartest way for me to do this guys?

Secure or unsecured I get thrown the Not Available when clicking on update or going to https://mybaseurl.com/wp-admin/update-core.php from the admin dash panel.

@sterndata Steve, Thanks for your input. I figured as much. Whats the best way to do this if I don’t have excellent mobility inside the admin dash panel? FTP drop the latest WP version onto my server and force override of duplicates, prefix my original folder names and drop them in one at a time, outside the wp-config what would I not want to over write? I used custom themes and there may be a chance of there being some custom changes in <4.9 as I wasn’t the dev who did that. It was further behind I successfully did upgrade it to 4.9 I think and didn’t have issues (hints likely not custom edited core wordpress files, rather just likely the custom child theme so all’s well there I believe). So just drag and drop a newer WP installation and I should be okay? How high should I go, and when it comes to updates, can I update them the same way via ftp as a base theme by dragging and dropping it in FTP or renaming folders and adding it in it’s place (in general, I realize some plugins are not compatible with certain versions of WP)?

Thank you all for your corrections and input, any input is welcomed and most gracious.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by houghkc.
• This reply was modified 5 years ago by houghkc.
• This reply was modified 5 years ago by houghkc.