The instructions for a manual update/upgrade can be found here: Updating WordPress. It’s worth reading all the way through first. There are a couple of important tips regarding wp-config.php and /wp-content directory that you won’t want to overlook.
As always, take a complete backup first just in case. 🙂
Thanks! I have bookmarked that site.
Do you know how I can possibly fix the issue where WordPress say it is up to date and won’t progress further? I’d like to fix and use the one click updating, if possible.
Should I make a new thread for this problem?
Thanks.
Sometimes a plugin or a theme might cause an error in the version wordpress reports. You might try temporarily disabling your plugins and see if the message changes. If not, temporarily switch to the default wordpress theme and see if that does it. If that doesn’t work, and wordpress still reports the wrong version as being up to date after doing a manual update, you may want to go ahead and start a new topic.
Hi again,
I disabled a bunch of plugins and I still can’t see any updates. Though, after I disabled the wordpress w3 caching, I saw it had 3 updates and when I went to the updates page, only 2 were plugins but then it all vanished! I think the other one was WordPress itself but… this then led me to this thought: I remembered I have APC installed. I think this is likely causing my issue. So I’m going to tinker around a bit with this and if I keep running into issues, I’ll make a new post.
Thanks a lot for your detailed and prompt help, much appreciated 🙂
Well, I got the site updated. I had to manually update it. Even removed all the plugins and used a basic theme. Something appears to be broken underneath and I will be forced to update manually each time. Plugins don’t seem to want to update either but I can’t tell what ones need to update without manually searching for each one. But, at least I am 4.6.1 now.
EDIT: I managed to modify some obscure files and it seemed to have fixed my issue. /sigh
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