Upgrading to WordPress version 3.2
Overview
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It's often customized into a Content Management System (CMS).
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This article is depracated; original publish date: June 2011. It is provided as a courtesy to customers that may be running an older version of WordPress. We highly recommend keeping all of your web applications current.
The current 1-Click version for WordPress is 3.3.2.
How to upgrade your WordPress site to 3.2
The new WordPress has speed, security, and convenience improvements that have changed its system requirements. We would like to help you prepare your site to be updated.
What's different in version 3.2?
WordPress has new minimum system requirements: PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.
How do I know if my site is ready?
In order to update, your site needs to have recent PHP5 and MySQL5 versions. Here's how:
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Make sure you're using PHP5. Read this article for more information: How can I specify the PHP version for web applications on the (gs) Grid-Service?
You may see this error:Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /nfs/c0X/hXX/mnt/000000/domains/example.com/html/wp-includes/load.php on line 566 - Make sure you're using MySQL5. This can be found inside of PHPMyAdmin. Please see this article for details: Managing a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin.
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Update WordPress from your Dashboard automatically. See Figure 1 as an example.
Figure 1.Be sure to read Updating WordPress for instructions.
