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I thought to write this post on a very good plugin which automates Wordpress upgrade process. Some of you might have heard about it. It is called Wordpress Automatic upgrade. It automates all the required steps to follow manually in a Wrodpress upgrade. I also wanted to upgrade my blog’s Wordpress version 2.5. I used this plugin few hours ago and it was awesome. You are now looking at a Wordpress blog which is upgraded to version 2.5 .

Here’s how Wordpress describes it.

Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

If you haven’t upgraded your Wordpress version to 2.5 and don’t like to get messed up with the manual upgrading, this is the best plugin ever which will ease your work and stress. It even provides a temporary “The site is being Upgraded” page while you are running the upgrade process. But as a precaution I recommend you to get backups of your current installation and the database . If anything goes wrong, you can revert back . Anyway the probability of happening that is very low. But the experience I had with this plugin, I found that it doesn’t re-activate the whole pugins which were deactivated before. But it is nothing much a problem. You can activate them manually when you want.