Upgrades
Why can’t WordPress make available a “changed files” downloads like phpBB does. Their upgrade instructions are basically a new installation of WordPress minus the database stuff. The upgrade instructions for the latest release consist of the following:
- Delete /wp-admin/ folder.
- Delete /wp-includes/ folder
- Delete all the wordpress files in the root directory where the root index.php file is found. DO NOT DELETE wp-config.php.
- Download and extract the new version.
- Upload it to the appropriate folders such as /wp-admin/ and /wp-includes/.
- Upload all the files in the root directory.
That’s it.
Why in the world would I want to naively delete all those files and directories?!?! I have changed files in those directories. As it is now I have to diff the document root directories to see which files changed and manually copy the ones that did over to he server. What a pain.
