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Whoops! WordPress Plugin Update Issue

13 April 2008, 8:47 pm. 6 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Geekery.

One of the neat things about Word­Press 2.5 is that when a plu­gin that’s in the Word­Press Plu­gin Direc­tory is updated, you get a mes­sage ask­ing if you want to down­load the new ver­sion or upgrade auto­mat­i­cally. If you use the auto­matic option, Word­Press down­loads the new ver­sion, deletes the old one, unzips the down­loaded file, and reac­ti­vates the plu­gin. It’s mar­velously sim­ple, com­pared to down­load­ing, unzip­ping, delet­ing, upload­ing, and reac­ti­vat­ing things man­u­ally. Until last night, it worked beau­ti­fully.
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