Try:
– switching to the Twenty Ten theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
– deleting the .maintenance file in your root WordPress folder.
– re-running the upgrade manually using /wp-admin/upgrade.php.
i can’t find the .maintenance file and when i goto wp-admin/upgrade.php it says im up-to-date but as i log in to the wp-admin it says “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now.”
i try click that but it only goes as far as “Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.3.zip…
Unpacking the update…”
any suggestions?
thanks
Ensure that your FTP software is configured to show all files in case it’s hiding the .maintenance file.
Since you have access to wp-admin, deactivate all plugins and switch to the Twenty Ten theme before re-trying an upgrade.
switched to the new theme but update fails at the same point.
Try adding: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to the top of your WordPress .htaccess file.
where do i find that file? and what do you by adding? do i open the file, add that line and the save it?
sorry im a bit of a noob.
The .htaccess file (if it exists) should in the same folder as WordPress. again, ensure that your FTP software is configured to show all files as .htaccess files are often hidden by default. Once you’ve located the file, download it and edit in in a plain text editor. add the line to the top of the file with at least 1 blank line after it. save the file and re-upload it to your WordPress folder.
If the file doesn’t exist (ie you’re not using pretty, custom, permalinks), you can create the file in a text editor, add the line I suggested, save it as .htaccess, then upload it to your WordPress folder.
when you say wordpress folder, do you mean wp-content?
if so, is this the main folder, or is the wp-content inside wp-content the main folder?
i made the ftp client force hidden files but still cant see the maintenance or htaccess file. ill try create the htaccess but not sure exactly where to upload it. once i do do this, what is my next step also?
when you say wordpress folder, do you mean wp-content?
No – the folder where you installed WordPress. The one that has the wp-content folder in it.
once i do do this, what is my next step also
Try the upgrade again.
yes this worked. at least the update went through. thank you so much!
webpage and admin are still running quite slow though. any suggestions for this?
– try increasing the memory available to PHP:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842
– reduce the number of plugins being used
– try another theme
