Title: Advice before upgrading
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Advice before upgrading

 *  [jflorian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jflorian/)
 * (@jflorian)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-before-upgrading/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve got wordpres version 2.6 I think – installed it about a 7/8 weeks ago.
 * The documentation I’ve found for upgrading to 2.7 is lacking in my opinion – 
   for example, “retain files you’ve modified”. Talk about vague!!!
 * Also I’m a bit worried about breaking my theme, as well as how to revert the 
   database back if the upgrade fails. I’ve had terrible experiences upgrading web
   apps before and would love a good guide for this one, otherwise quite frankly
   I’m not going to upgrade 🙂
 * And as a side note, is it really necessary to upgrade to 2.7?
 * Thanks 🙂
 * Jody

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-before-upgrading/#post-953517)
 * > “retain files you’ve modified”
 * that is fairly explanatory – don’t mess with files you changed or things will
   break. :>)
 * 2.7 is not a security release, but you will need to upgrade eventually
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advice-before-upgrading/#post-953519)
 * If you want a detailed, step-by-step example, then the videos at the link below
   may help. I use Cpanel in the demo, but the process is the same if you use FTP.
 * [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=17](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=17)

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