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  • If I am currently running version 2.0.5 and want to upgrade to the latest stable release 2.3.3 can I just follow the upgrade instructions and upgrade directly to 2.3.3? I know there are many other release between 2.0.5 and 2.3.3, can I just skip those and go directly to 2.3.3?

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  • Just a word to the wise: DO NOT SKIP the steps outlined in the link above provided by whooami. There are significant, very close to the bone changes between your version of WP and the current version. Make sure you make a backup of your MySQL database and any custom themes you have. Deactivate all plugins. (Be prepared to lose a few along the way, since some may not be compatible with the latest version of WP.)

    I’m having trouble with this exact issue. I’m trying to upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.3.3; and I believe that I have done so. However, when I login to my admin panel, it still says 2.0.6 down the bottom.

    The steps I took:
    1. Backup .htaccess, wp-config.php and wp-content
    2. Delete everything from my wordpress directory. In my case this was the root folder of my domain.
    3. Copy new wordpress files into root folder.
    4. Copy wp-config.php into root folder; run /admin/wp-upgrade.php
    6. Copy back .htaccess and wp-content folder
    7. Login to admin panel, see version number still the same. 🙁

    Any ideas?

    My site is http://owened.net/ if anyone can tell just from the code somewhere that it has actually upgraded?

    Since the above steps I have run the upgrade script a few more times to no avail.

    I’d just like to announce that I’m very silly.

    The reason it wasn’t upgrading was because unbeknownst to me, when I was executing “wget wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz”, it was downloading the latest version alright, but was placing it in a file called latest.tar.gz.4 because I already had other latest.tar.gz files in the directory!

    So as I proceeded to unzip my “new” wordpress from latest.tar.gz, I was actually updating my current installation with the same version again.

    Go figure.

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