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1. TheMacFeed
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have 2.7.1 and the Upgrade does not show 2.8 how do i upgrade with out loosing everything I have posted and the theme?

2. sannebuurma
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think I'm experiencing the same problem. Although on my second blog running the same 2.7.1 version it does show the upgrade-button on the Admin interface.

   Is there a way to force WP to look for the new version or should we install the Automatic Upgrade plugin to do it for us...which I'd rather not do ;)

3. alballaa
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try this, it worked for me.
   Go to tools and select upgrade, it will tell you that you have the latest. So ask it to Re-install automatically. After it does that the auto upgrade to 2.8 appeared to me. I just upgraded and all was good.

4. Justin Tadlock
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Upgrading WordPress:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

5. andryl
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks alballaa - great advice. Was difficult to find a way to search for this solution but grateful your advice was right.

6. sonofbruce
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @alballaa Brilliant. Thanks. (I had this problem with one of the five WP sites I maintain.)

7. alballaa
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   glad it worked for you guys.

   Happy to say 2.8 is working for me with no problems till today.

8. MarsRam
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a netsol hosting package and have just installed WP 2.7 blog. Before I did anything else, I tried to do an automatic upgrade to 2.8. I provided the blog url, the username and password registered with WP, and the connection type as FTP. I get an error message: "There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct". I tried various combintions but with the same result. Can anyone help? I am new at this.....MarsRam

9. Window Cleaners
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a slightly different problem. I have the upgrade link in my 2.7.1 dashboard but WordPress fails to connect to the ftp server. I checked all my login details 20 times, reset the ftp password - still nothing. I am connecting successfully to the same ftp server using Dreamweaver, so the login details are correct.

   I upgraded 2 WordPress blogs from the same IP address. Could that be the culprit?

   Thanks,

10. alexdumitru
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I did reinstall automatically, but now all I see is "You have the latest version of WordPress. You do not need to upgrade" though my wordpress isn't up-to-date.

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