Title: Upgrading WordPress, Do Not Delete? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Upgrading WordPress, Do Not Delete? * [unseenmortal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unseenmortal/) * (@unseenmortal) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/) * I’m planning to upgrade my WordPress 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 but when i Ready the Upgrading WordPress page ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)) on step 7 it says I don’t have to delete some certain files and folder. Does that mean that I shouldn’t overwrite these certain files stated on step 7 too? Because once i upload the updated wordpress, it’ll prompt me if i wanted to overwrite the files, so that means that the certain files on step 7 shouldn’t be overwritten, am i right? thanks Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695132) * **Doing an upgrade from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3???** * do the simple thing.. go get the FIVE files from my site. * You will want to **replace** the ones on your server with the ones inside the zip. * [http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/02/04/wordpress-2-3-3/](http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/02/04/wordpress-2-3-3/) * Thread Starter [unseenmortal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unseenmortal/) * (@unseenmortal) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695147) * Get the FIVE files from your site? Thanks for the offer, but i want to learn how to upgrade manually, i was just asking if i need to replace the ones on step 7 or leave it as it is? Thank you.. * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695149) * You are doing it manually if you get the 5 files, but ok. * If you want to replace files that dont need replacing — have at it. Some people dont like simple, thats fine. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695150) * The upgrade to 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 is a minor (but important) update, only 5 files were actually changed. A security problem was found that forced the release of 2.3.3 quickly to fix it. * However, as far as a general upgrade procedure goes, you would usually remove the wp-admin and wp-includes folder entirely (assuming you have not made any custom changes to the core files), and then upload the new stuff. The only “overwriting” you’ll get in that case will be the default and classic themes, along with the akismet plugin. Assuming you don’t use the default or classic themes, then it doesn’t matter much whether you overwrite them or not. Akismet will be upgraded probably by you overwriting it with the latest one. Some stuff in the root directory will be overwritten as well. * Generally, we don’t like to recommend overwriting files via FTP here, because, for some reason, people have proven to be very bad at it. I don’t understand it myself, but countless people come in here saying that they upgraded but it still says the old version… This means they did not actually upgrade, and trying to convince them to try the upload again is usually an exercise in painful and annoying futility… * Anyway, in theory, a straight overwrite would work all around. But people suck at that, so a clean sweep of the main two directories is usually enough. These are also the directories that occasionally get files removed or renamed from version to version, so cleaning out older versions is generally a good idea. * Thread Starter [unseenmortal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unseenmortal/) * (@unseenmortal) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695217) * So in short, delete wp-admin and wp-includes folder then replace it with the new ones right? And just use the upgrade.php? Does all update usually fall under that, just wipe out two folders and replace it with the new one? thanks * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695221) * [Upgrading_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress) in the Codex is worth a look as well. * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695236) * Manually running upgrade.php is not usually necessary. If upgrade.php actually needs to be run, then the admin page will tell you so and give you a link to run it. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Upgrading WordPress, Do Not Delete?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [overwrite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/overwrite/) * [Upgrading Wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrading-wordpress/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-do-not-delete/#post-695236) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics