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I hate to see upgrade messages, doesn’t matter how important and useful they are. Why? Because they required backing up of your entire blog files, downloading, replacing your old files with upgraded one and this fear that may come across a mess up in which you can even wipe out your blog.

WordPress has now released Version 2.3.2. You must install this as this has an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. Those who were using feature “Post Timestamp of WordPress 2.3.1 that allows you to draft your post and set future posting date so that the post will only be displayed at that time; were facing this serious threat. Anyone can see their future posts, posts that are not yet published but saved as drafts.

Also 2.3.2 suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations

So what you are thinking? Have you upgraded your WordPress installations to 2.3.2 yet? Good news - there is a WordPress Plugin available that will automatically upgrade your blog file. You just need to download it, Install it and it will take care of all upgrading task.

Here is how this Automatic Upgrade Plugin called WPAU works:

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active Plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades WordPress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the Plugins.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.zip file to your local machine.
2. Unzip the file
3. Upload `wordpress-automatic-upgrade` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

Usage Instructions

Go to Manage -> Automatic Upgrade and either click on the link provided to run or use the automated version link to let the plugin run in a automated way.

When first developed by techie-buzz, this Plugin was having hell lots of bugs. But many thanks to Keith Dsouza his latest version of WPAU managed to fix all bugs. (Hopefully J)

Read more about the Plugin HERE

Download the latest version HERE

Hope it will solve all your WP updating problems and will save you messing up your precious blog and off course from now onwards WP updating will not be a nightmare anymore.

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