Orbis Lumen Illuminating Your Interconnections

Automates the updating process for Wordpress releases (2.x versions).

• Automatically downloads new Wordpress source.
• Creates a backup of the site.
• Creates a backup of the database.
• Does not simply overwrite source files - uses pristine Wordpress source then brings in any site customizations.
• Prompts when unusual circumstances are found.
• Can be run non-interactively for multiple site updates.
• Many optional command-line options for finer-grained control.

wordpress_upgrade is a command-line program requiring shell access on the server containing the Wordpress site. Nearly all installations can be successfully updated by only specifying the directory containing your Wordpress installation:

This program is written in Perl and released under the GPLv3 license in the hopes it may be useful to some of you people out there. Please see the README.txt for more detail, including multi-site admin and security considerations.

Bugs / Wishlist

Current version 0.8 (7 Feb 2008)