Title: how does a non-tech update?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# how does a non-tech update?

 *  [kenst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenst/)
 * (@kenst)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-a-non-tech-update/)
 * hi, I know somebody who’s running WordPress 2.1.3 on what I’d presume is shared
   server space at Network Solutions hosting. He’s a very smart guy but just not
   much into computers, I guess.
 * What would be the usual way for somebody like that to update to the newest version?
   Hire a neighborhood teenage geek? Does the hosting company usually do that (for
   free or for a charge)?
 * I looked at the doc and it seems that older versions do not have the facility
   for automatic upgrade. (I’d also read a blog that auto update might be bad because
   you have to give write permissions for the server to write over config files.)
 * Also, apparently a manual update involves downloading then unzipping then ftp’ing
   the files to the server. But backup beforehand would be crucial. So how/where
   does a non-tech get somebody to do that? Thanks.

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 *  [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * (@cais)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-a-non-tech-update/#post-1472649)
 * You could look at posting here: [http://jobs.wordpress.net/](http://jobs.wordpress.net/)
 * The process should not be all that difficult, but for someone that has not done
   it themself before it could appear very daunting.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-a-non-tech-update/#post-1472652)
 * [Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress)
 * There’s also the complication that it’s best to do an incremental upgrade from
   old versions in the sequence 2.1 to 2.3, 2.3 to 2.5, 2.5 to 2.8.5, 2.8.5 to 2.9.2
   to ensure the database gets upgraded properly.

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-a-non-tech-update/#post-1472652)
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