These are the instructions needed to upgrade WordPress Manually on a linux (CentOS 6) system. Requirements WordPress has been fully installed and configured Have root Priveleges I also suggest backing up your data which can be done using Akeeba as explained here Manual Upgrade Go to your WP root Directory [ahmed@amayem ~]$ cd /var/www/wpsiteroot/ Download…
Backing up your WordPress site (or multisite) is an important task if you care about your content. A good backing up system can save you a lot of time if something happens to your data or, even configuration. This tutorial will go through how to setup and use Akeeba Backup CORE for WordPress. Requirements WordPress…
This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) After setting up a network wordpress site you may want to install some plugins. So in the network admin dashboard we click on Plugins and search for some way to install it as we are used to with the regular…
This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) A WordPress MultiSite installation gives you the ability to make more than one WordPress site using one installation directory (though each site has its own upload media directory). You can allow anyone to make a WordPress site from your WordPress…
This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) As shown here, when we setup pretty permalinks using .htaccess we end up having to do it manually. It is also mentioned by Apache that enabling .htaccess causes a performance hit, so why not just configure Apache properly to beging…