If you are a person like me who didn’t new any thing about Data Bases and hence installed WordPress using Fantastico and now wondering whether you can upgrade to a new version of WordPress with the built in one click upgrade option, this article could come as a rescue.
The short answer is, Yes, you can use the built in WordPress auto upgrade option.
The only caveat here is, regardless of whether WordPress was installed using Fantastico or not, all the files must belong to the user who instructs the upgrade option, other wise when you click on Upgrade it asks for your username and password and no matter what you enter there, the upgrade won’t work.
The only issue here is that you’ll continue to see your old WordPress version inside the cPanel when you visit Fantastico. And yes you can delete all instances of fantastico in the root folder after your upgrade is successful.
I could manage to take this risk of upgrading with the built in option now because I’ve learnt so much of WordPress that I was even ready for a manual repair if something went wrong.
As such, you are always advised to take a back up of your Database (at least) before you do anything related to the core wordpress. Just simply use the cPanel Backup wizard and backup the Database.
As another step of precaution, for if something goes wrong during the upgrade process, it is recommended that you download your .htaccess and wp-config.php files to your desktop for doing any manual repair later (they both will be safe during the auto upgrade process, but still…).
Please see this checklist after wordpress upgrade, to confirm that every thing is actually fine.
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