How to upgrade WordPress

Did you notice a pink bar at the top of your WordPress dashboard this week?

Complete with a command to “Please update now.”? The “please” softens it a bit, but it’s still a command.

This is WordPress’s way of helpfully notifying you that a new version is available. In this post, I’ll illustrate how easy it is [...]

How to Upgrade a WordPress Plugin

I’ve already described how to install a WordPress plugin from within WordPress.

Now that you have your plugins installed and happily plugging along, it won’t be long before a little red circle with a white number in it appears next to the word “Plugins” in your WordPress navigation (as shown in Figure 1). Perhaps it’s already [...]

How to upgrade anything, part 6 of 6 (Heart-Centered Technology Tip)

Chances are, there’s something you’re settling for right now. Something that annoys you periodically but you haven’t gotten around to dealing with it yet. We’ll tackle that problem in bite-sized steps over the coming weeks (and I’ll make the list of parts clickable as the series gets published), in this Heart-Centered Technology Tip 6-part series [...]

How to upgrade anything, part 5 of 6: Test, test, test!

Chances are, there’s something you’re settling for right now. Something that annoys you periodically but you haven’t gotten around to dealing with it yet. We’ll tackle that problem in bite-sized steps over the coming weeks (and I’ll make the list of parts clickable as the series gets published), in this Heart-Centered Technology Tip 6-part series [...]