How to update WordPress Core, Themes and Plugins?
Purpose:
- To maintain WordPress healthy, to reduce security risk, to reduce hacking, to reduce malware injection, WordPress website owners shall regularly keep WordPress core, themes and its plugins up-to-dated.
Procedures:
- Backup website files and database
- Goto WordPress Administrative Panel
- Under Dashboard, goto Updates
- Proceed the update
- Good Luck
Details:
For best assurance, always backup your website files and databases first before any updates
(for cPanel control panel, goto https://www.xxx.com:2083, goto Backup, Download your home directory backup, and your database backup, or ask your web hosting provider how to backup/download your website files and databases)
2. Goto WordPress Administrative Panel
3. When update(s) are available, it will prompt you. Press the button – “Update Now”
4. WordPress update is in progress…
5. The core of WordPress has been updated successfully.
6. If you have other updates available (e.g. themes/plugins), goto Dashboard -> Updates
It will show, for example –
7. WordPress themes update is in progress..
8. Themes update completed.
9. Done. Test your website. Good luck.
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