I was about to do the manual update when I was pointed to this tool from Scott’s Twiiter . It’s the WordPress Automatic Updater plug-in (GPL). WAUP is an easy point-n-click way to upgrade WordPress versions. It not only upgraded my copy of WordPress but made backups first in case something went wrong. Very slick.

Not strictly Linux-orientated, but still open-source and relevant to a lot of people. Especially us.

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