WordPress 2.3 to 2.3.1 Incremental Upgrade
TheSpot-er on October 29th, 2007WordPress 2.3.1 is released and unfortunately this time (again, I should mention) they didn’t provide a path to incremental upgrade of existing WordPress 2.3 blogs. While I understand their unwillingness to do so to avoid support nightmare it really has no reason.
I have created a package with ONLY the changed files between WordPress 2.3 and WordPress 2.3.1 and have fully tested successful implementation on 2 of my live blogs.
WordPress 2.3.1 contains bug fixes and at least one security hot fix but when upgrade.php script was run on one of my development blogs I was presented with a welcome message that Database Update wasn’t required. To me that means no changes to db are needed and all the fixes contained within files.
Being a nice guy that I’m 
I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving you worrying. File provided below contains only changed files and while I have tested install on 2 of my live blogs - use them at your own risk. On the very blog you are reading update was done live. No plugins deactivated, no maintenance mode required. Simply uploaded the changed files and Voila - I’m up to date.
If you are feeling venturous - feel free to follow my lead and download incremental WordPress 2.3.1 package below.
WordPress 2.3 to 2.3.1 incremental upgrade files
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Thanks, Alex. I launched my blog a few weeks ago and I’ve been furiously adding content almost daily. I’ve been too afraid to upgrade in case something went wrong.
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Yeah …. this is common fear
You are not alone. Here is advice - create a subdomain dev.yourdomain.com, load an exact copy of your blog on that sub-domain and do upgrade there first …
Method described here was tested first on dev, then test blog replicas and only when everything was verified - this blog got upgraded.
Alex
Alex, Thanks for this! Appreciate your taking the headaches for us
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You are welcome Sue …
Its no problem
Alex
That update was so quick and simple. Thanks so much!
You are welcome …
Hey Alex; have you heard of the wordpress automatic upgrade? i downloaded it but have not unzipped yet. It says that i can run this and it will update my blog to 2.3.1 automatically. What is your thought?
Charlie,
I have actually written about this plugin and you can find it under this tag: http://www.howtospoter.com/tag.....ic-upgrade
I think its a great idea but personally haven’t used it yet. 2.3 was huge upgrade and i didn’t trust any automated solution. As far as 2.3.1 I wanted to create a differences file to help other people upgrade plus I needed it for my other project …
I haven’t visited that plugin since I wrote about it initially but it had a good promise behind it. Also I like that it creates your blog backup prior to upgrade but once again - I personally haven’t tested it.
Alex