- Delete Your WordPress Plugins Automatically
- Upgrade Your WordPress Plugins Automatically
- Install Your WordPress Plugins Automatically
- Customize Your WordPress Dashboard
If you have the latest version of WordPress installed, you should be able to upgrade your plugins automatically via the plugins page. However I find most people aren’t using it yet.
To use this all you need to do is to click on “Upgrade Automatically” and follow the instructions.
You’’ll be asked for your FTP address, user name and password. Once you enter those and click on “Upgrade” your WordPress software will automatically deactivate the older version, download and extract the new version, and re-activate it.
How’s that for a time saver?
However, it may not work for all plugins, especially older ones which were not downloaded from the official WordPress plugins site. The good news is that even if it does fail, it probably won’t mess up your blog.
Watch the YouTube video for a tutorial:
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hi gobala,
when i clicked the ‘upgrade automatically’ in wordpress plugin area, it came out with dis,
“Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-super-cache.0.8.6.zip
Download failed.: couldn’t connect to host
Plugin upgrade Failed”
instead of Connection Information area. Why ah?
Did you install any plugin called “Instant Upgrade” for WordPress before? Or any similar plugin, cos in WP2.7 those are not compatible and could be causing your error.
Uninstall that plugin if you’re using it. It’s not easy to uninstall the Instant Upgrade plugin, not like other plugins. Read the instructions carefully you will need to delete all your files and upload them again.
Seem you can’t upgrade because it’s already timeout when try to connect with wordpress.org. It’s also happen to me even using wp2.7 w/o previous version.
I find the solution is just to increase the respond time from the default 30 inside file.php in wp-admin/include.
Just increase it over 100 or even 1000. Hope this help.