Glad to see you’re still working on WAUP. I’ve never had a problem in using it although I have a habit of doing upgrades manually in the case of milestone releases like 2.5 and 2.6. I’m rather anal like that.

The only real problem I’ve had with WAUP which is not really a problem at all, is that it created the WAUP tables with the latin 1 label rather than utf8. I believe the actual format of the tables are utf8 though, yes?. WordPress did the same thing with the earlier releases and have since gone to creating it’s tables and labeling them as utf8. Like I said, not really a problem, I just happened to notice when I manually converted my old WP tables to utf8 when I upgraded to the 2.5 series.

You’re absolutely right in what you say of course, but I made the procedure as basic as possible on purpose. There’s more WordPress bloggers out there then you’d think who wouldn’t have a clue of how to decompress a tar.gz or zip file on a server and most would balk at doing the upgrade just because of that. I had to look at it from an absolute beginner’s perspective in other words.

The idea behind the procedure is that the new user can watch what’s happening via their FTP client during the upgrade. Right-clicking on an online directory such as “wp-admin” or “wp-includes”, selecting “Delete” and then just waiting for the process to finish is not really that difficult. Neither is dragging and dropping the new directory from the local pane to the online pane or highlighting all the new root files at once and dragging the whole lot of them over to the right pane and dropping then waiting for the upload to finish. The only real chore is the waiting process. To me, a new user absolutely needs to know how to accomplish a basic manual upgrade like this one and understand how it works before they start learning how to upload and extract compresses files (a perfectly legitimate way of doing things) on the server and especially before they begin using any plugin that automates the process. What better way than watching it happen?

Hmmm, I just might have to edit that procedure a bit. Thanks for your reply!

Kirk: deleting big folders using FTP is a real chore.. what I usually do is upload the tar.gz or zip file to the server and then ssh to the site and delete the old folder and/or extract the archive. Uploading a single large file is waaaayyy faster than uploading a gajillion small files

Try this procedure here. If you this doesn’t help you then contact me directly via the contact form on the site and I’ll see if I can find where your problem lies in not being able to complete an upgrade.

http://www.greenmtngeek.com/20.....heres-how/

Coding a blog by html is a heck of a lot more complicated than upgrading a WordPress install even for someone who’s comfortable with writing HTML from scratch. But that coding ability will help you out in maintaining your site and in learning PHP and CSS.