This is what I did to upgrade one of my blogs that had Wordpress 2.3 and had to upgrade it quickly to 2.6.1, Ive found this as the quickest manual upgrade method.
1-> Login to your cPanel and Using File Manager, Create a new folder "BackupFolder" in Home directory. Now browse to the directory public_html , or the appropriate directory if using addon domain, subdomain or directory....
2-> Copy the folder wp-content and file wp-config.php to the folder that we just created ie. "BackupFolder". Also get a backup of your Wordpress data base using phpMyAdmin.
3-> Now delete all the wordpress folders and files and upload the latest version of Wordpress. You can also upload just the zipped folder and extract it through the File Manager and further copy the files to appropriate directory.
4-> Once the files are uploaded and are in place, Rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config and copy the database details from the wp-config.php that we saved in "BackupFolder" to the new wp-config.php file. If you are upgrading from version 2.5 or bellow, you will also have to put the api keys which you will get by visiting the link given in the new wp-config.php file. Save the changes to new Config file.
5-> Replace the wp-content folder from the directory with the old wp-content folder that we had copied to "BackupFolder".
6-> Now open your site... and everything must be working great. But theres a bit more to be done. Now visit your Admin panel ie. http://Your Domain Path/wp-admin
This will give you a messege saying your database is old upgrade it... Simply press the UPGRADE button and access your admin panel.
Bingo!! Everythings working great.
1-> Login to your cPanel and Using File Manager, Create a new folder "BackupFolder" in Home directory. Now browse to the directory public_html , or the appropriate directory if using addon domain, subdomain or directory....
2-> Copy the folder wp-content and file wp-config.php to the folder that we just created ie. "BackupFolder". Also get a backup of your Wordpress data base using phpMyAdmin.
3-> Now delete all the wordpress folders and files and upload the latest version of Wordpress. You can also upload just the zipped folder and extract it through the File Manager and further copy the files to appropriate directory.
4-> Once the files are uploaded and are in place, Rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config and copy the database details from the wp-config.php that we saved in "BackupFolder" to the new wp-config.php file. If you are upgrading from version 2.5 or bellow, you will also have to put the api keys which you will get by visiting the link given in the new wp-config.php file. Save the changes to new Config file.
5-> Replace the wp-content folder from the directory with the old wp-content folder that we had copied to "BackupFolder".
6-> Now open your site... and everything must be working great. But theres a bit more to be done. Now visit your Admin panel ie. http://Your Domain Path/wp-admin
This will give you a messege saying your database is old upgrade it... Simply press the UPGRADE button and access your admin panel.
Bingo!! Everythings working great.
