We have just upgraded from WordPress 2.6 to the latest version of WordPress manually. Thanks goes to http://enlightenedwebmastery.com for the step by step process.

Here are the steps

• Log into your host ing account, nav i gate to your Word Press instal la tion, and down load your wp-content folder.
• While your here, go ahead and backup your wp-config.php file.
• Google up “Word Press Data base Backup” or click here ->http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
• Install the plu gin, and use it.  Either down load a copy of your backup, or have it emailed to you. (this is just precautionary)
• Nav i gate to your dash board, and under plu g ins, deac ti vate every thing (in case it is not compatible)
• Visit WordPress.org and down load the lat est version.
• Decom press the .zip
• Using your FTP pro gram, login to your server, and delete the wp-admin, and wp-includes.
• After words, select every thing in the new word press folder (that you unzipped) but your wp-content, and wp-config-sample.php.
• Copy those to your server, over write as necessary.
• While those are trans fer ring, open up your “backed up” wp-config.php file, and take note of the login, pass, and hostname.
• define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘puty our db name here’);

/** MySQL data base pass word */ define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘your pass word here’);
/** MySQL host name */ define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘local host’);
/** MySQL data base user name */ define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);

After you have replaced that infor ma tion from the wp-config to the wp-sample-config, rename the wp-sample-config to wp-config.php.

• Upload that file to your server now.
• Then log back in to your dash board, and reac ti vate your plu g ins one by one.
• Your done.  Enjoy!

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