Gene Steinberg am 11. Februar 2008 um 01:47 #

First test at www.macnightowl.com worked fine via FTP .

Thanks for the update.

BTW: What plugin do you use for tags?

Peace,
Gene

Alex Günsche am 11. Februar 2008 um 09:44 #

Hello Gene, thanks for your courage to be the first to test, and thanks for the feedback!

As for tags, I don’t use tags on this blog (it runs on the stable 2.0 series). But on another blog, I run Simple Tagging.

Matt - Alpha2Beta blog am 12. Februar 2008 um 14:14 #

Hi Alex, thanks for a great plugin.
I just installed your plugin and everything ran smoothly.

BTW, I will be making a donation, first I will write a post about the plugin, it deserves a good write up!

Thanks

Alex Günsche am 12. Februar 2008 um 15:14 #

Hi Matt, thanks for testing, too. And a donation sure would be nice!

Alex Günsche am 12. Februar 2008 um 18:17 #

NOTE to testers: The next days, there will be a second beta, which will no longer save the FTP password. Due to a discussion on this issue, I decided that it might be better, from a security view, not to save the password.

Alex Günsche am 14. Februar 2008 um 00:19 #

Ok. beta2 is out now. There are no big differences, except the FTP password is no longer saved on the server.

Betsy Finn am 14. Februar 2008 um 18:41 #

Hi Alex — nice plugin. I tried configuring using Firefox and the FTP configuration test failed without exception. Tried using your plugin with IE — and configuration test ran fine (as well as upgrade).

Aside from that hold-up, I’ve completed my WP upgrade and everything seems to be fine. Thanks!

Alex Günsche am 14. Februar 2008 um 18:51 #

Hi Betsy, thanks for your feedback! As for the Firefox miss, could it be that this was directly after selecting FTP, before you even entered any FTP data?

Betsy Finn am 14. Februar 2008 um 21:54 #

Alex —

I thought that could’ve been the case, but I did make sure to completely enter the FTP data (double-checked for correctness)… which still resulted in same failure.

The only thing I can think of is that I did recently download Firefox version 2.0.012 (just released 2/7/08)

Alf am 15. Februar 2008 um 12:36 #

Just what I needed right now Thank you so much!

Betsy Finn am 15. Februar 2008 um 23:55 #

Resolved the problem. It was due to having fireftp open in the same window (different tab) — once I closed the fireftp plugin, then I was able to use instant upgrade with firefox.

:D

chronicchick am 16. Februar 2008 um 07:44 #

Hi,
Will this tool replace any old wordpress versions? Ie I uploaded the new version and I don’t think I got rid of the old version? the admin panel is still saying I need to update… Ugh.. I am still learning wordpress? Is there a way to not mix the old with new.

Alex Günsche am 16. Februar 2008 um 12:04 #

Betsy, thanks for finding this out and reporting back! Let’s hope it will help other users, too.

chronicchick: The reason why you see that warning could be that your WordPress hasn’t updated this information yet.

chronicchick am 17. Februar 2008 um 00:17 #

Will downloading the instant upgrade take away what I don’t need and put in what I neeed?

Alex Günsche am 17. Februar 2008 um 12:41 #

chronicchick: Yes, when you perform a successful upgrade or reinstallation with the plugin, you will have an out-of-the-box WordPress (wp-content/ and wp-config.php are preserved, of course).

Paul am 21. Februar 2008 um 17:47 #

Instant Upgrade works as advertised, no problems! - Thank you.

After spending many hours building my site, I was aprehensive to upgrade Wordpress from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3, particularly after reading the upgrade path. Too much work. Found your plugin, took about a minute. Done.

danny am 22. Februar 2008 um 10:58 #

i am running an old version 2.03 i would like to upgrade but my host says i can’t cos the host cant handle the new version Is this true or not ?

Alex Günsche am 22. Februar 2008 um 14:23 #

danny: This is possible. WordPress 2.1 and higher need more higher PHP and MySQL versions. But you can use InstantUpgrade to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.11, which is the latest version of the still maintained 2.0.x branch of WordPress.

Jay McGillicuddy am 23. Februar 2008 um 02:08 #

I am receiving this error. Any help would be appreciated. i am using the HTTP method.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /hsphere/local/home/acemaker/jaymcgillicuddy.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/lib/pclzip/pclzip.php on line 162

Thanks Jay

Alex Günsche am 23. Februar 2008 um 10:47 #

You appear to have another plugin running that uses PCLZIP. Please deactivate that first.

Btw, it is not good that this other plugin always loads PCLZIP. It should load this huge piece of code only when it’s needed. Please send the author of that other plugin a message to revisit his code, so it loads this class only when it’s needed for a specific action of his plugin.

Jay McGillicuddy am 24. Februar 2008 um 18:02 #

Thank you, much appreciated.

Jay McGillicuddy am 24. Februar 2008 um 18:06 #

I forgot to deactivate all my plugins before I used your plugin and once I deactivated them all and only activated yours it worked like a charm.

Thank You, Jay

Chris am 26. Februar 2008 um 12:16 #

I successfully installed your plugin, but can’t seem to connect using FTP. The details are correct but an error message always appears saying that the plugin can’t create a “work folder within the plugin directory.

Any ideas?

Alex Günsche am 26. Februar 2008 um 12:57 #

Chris, could you please post the exact error message? Can you also tell me what kind of FTP server and operating system you have on your host (or give me a link, so I can try to find out myself)?

Rob Cubbon am 28. Februar 2008 um 19:32 #

HI Alex,
I’m getting “Setting host failed” – I’m sure my details are correct. Using Firefox and Safari on the Mac and have deactivated all other plugins.

Alex Günsche am 28. Februar 2008 um 19:37 #

What FTP server type do you have? can you connect to the server via Telnet? Is the FTP server reachable under the same hostname and IP?

Btw, I’ve taken the liberty to remove the advertising part from your “name”, and (as a little lesson), I’ve also removed your URL. Try it again, and I will feed you to Akismet.

Matt - Alpha2Beta Blog am 29. Februar 2008 um 18:47 #

Hi Alex, as promised I have made you a small donation to help you with future developments. Email me when you receive the payment and perhaps we can set up some good backlinks etc.
Cheers
Matt

Alex Günsche am 29. Februar 2008 um 19:08 #

Thank you very much for your (not so small) donation!
I sent you an e-mail.

Samuele am 5. März 2008 um 22:26 #

Hi Alex,

I wasn’t able to extract the .zip file. Could you pls help me?

Thanks,
Samuele

Robert Richard am 8. März 2008 um 13:39 #

Hello,

I need to update my wp-includes/languages (French WP) fr_FR.mo file. It seems that file mode want permit me to delete/replace the above file. How can I resolve.

Thanks for replying.

Alex Günsche am 8. März 2008 um 17:39 #

Put the languages/ folder into wp-content/.

NW am 12. März 2008 um 20:24 #

Hello Alex,

I can’t upgrade WP cause of following the error;

# Downloading file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip failed. HTTP status code: 13.
# Error: It was not possible to retrieve the remote file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip.

HTTP and FTP are the same result. http://wordpress.org/latest.zip is working via Firefox download, but via the instant upgrade plugin. Could you any advise to solve it?

Thanks,

Soleh

Francis am 14. März 2008 um 07:32 #

Hi Alex,

The problem i keep encountering is that the path to my WordPress installation seems to be incorrect. All the wordpress files are in a folder called ‘geils’, so in the FTP path to WordPress: box i put /geils/.
The error i get is: FTP configuration test failed.
The path seems to be incorrect, a WordPress installation was not found.
How do i write the correct path?

Thank you

Francis

Alex Günsche am 14. März 2008 um 12:04 #

Francis, I might not have understood you correctly: Is the directory /geils/ in your FTP root? You must enter the path relative to your FTP root, not relative to the vHost’s document root.

Wordpress blogs broken - Surpass Web Hosting Forums am 18. März 2008 um 15:35 #

[…] Originally Posted by uhf I downloaded a generic php.ini I found on this site, and changed the memory limit directive to 32M. That made the blogs work, except the editor is weird now. I’m going to try to re-upload all the wordpress files and see if that helps. One of the installs needs upgraded to the latest version anyway. There’s a plugin called instant upgrade. You can use it to upgrade, and it can also be used to download all of the files again. I’m not sure if it’ll work when they release 2.5 though… __________________ You wear Vans so high school kids will think that you can skate. He wears Vans because he can skate. TwiRp wears Vans because they were on sale. Pass76 wants Vans. […]

Robert Richard am 19. März 2008 um 00:15 #

Hello again,

Using current beta version and my 0.2 version, it says updated, but the WP is still version 2.3.3. What wrong%

Thanks for your support.

Alex Günsche am 19. März 2008 um 00:32 #

What option did you select, latest or arbitrary version? If you selected latest, then of course you will get 2.3.3, because wordpress.org/latest.zip is WP 2.3.3 at this time.

Adam Kayce am 19. März 2008 um 15:00 #

Awesome; it even worked with the 2.5-RC1 version. Great plugin!

Johannes Ries am 19. März 2008 um 15:07 #

Manueller Trackback: Deutsche Sprachdatei für InstantUpgrade - WordPress aktualisieren mit einem Klick

Wyn James am 20. März 2008 um 15:12 #

This plugin sounds great - but can you explain why it cannot be used with Fantastico setups? I initially installed WordPress using Fantastico. However, I had to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress manually - which was tedious. Ideally, in future I’d like to be able to use your plugin.

By the way, I’ve implemented your Advanced Search plugin and I think it’s great!

Alex Günsche am 20. März 2008 um 19:43 #

I once had a case where somebody tried to upgrade from Fantastico to regular WordPress and had a bad crash (luckily, he had good backups). As I cannot test with Fantastico myself, I can only warn people to try it.

However, if you already upgraded to regular WordPress, the plugin should work for you. I’d say, give it a try.

Marcos A.T. Silva am 30. März 2008 um 01:17 #

Hi,

The current version of InstantUpgrade works on WordPress 2.3.3, and upgrades it version to the final 2.5 released today?

Regards.

Alex Günsche am 30. März 2008 um 03:01 #

Of course.

matringe am 30. März 2008 um 10:12 #

Merci beaucoup pour votre application.
J’ai pu effectuer la mise à jour de Wordpress 2.5 sans aucun problème.

Zool am 30. März 2008 um 20:06 #

I really wondering if Wordpess Dev Team can integrate something like this with wordpress as default.

Drew am 31. März 2008 um 00:54 #

Hello Alex,
Great plugin. I just want to verify that using this plugin to upgrade to version 2.5 is confirmed to work fine? I saw someone ask it above, but their English is a little confusing.

Thanks,
Drew

Tristan am 31. März 2008 um 04:02 #

Hi Alex,

This looks like just the plugin I have been waiting for. Unfortunately, I keep getting the error, “Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip” when I try to upgrade. Everything before that point works fine. I have checked to make sure the /work directory is writable by the FTP user, and it is (permissions are set at 755). Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Tristan

Armando Macedo am 31. März 2008 um 15:36 #

I can not activate the plugin. It is in the WordPress plugins folder (localhost), but it is not visible at admin panel. Thank you or some help.

Filmbox am 31. März 2008 um 16:40 #

The update to wordpress 2.5 worked also like before without problem. Great plugin.

Betsy Finn am 31. März 2008 um 17:03 #

I just used this plugin to upgrade to WP 2.5 and it worked great (just like the time before). Thanks again, this plugin has saved me so much work!

http://blogger.hvbx.de/ am 31. März 2008 um 20:53 #

WordPress Update per Knopfdruck…

WOW! Ich bin restlos begeistert!
Seit der Veröffentlichung von WordPress 2.5 habe ich immer wieder überlegt, wann ich denn endlich das Update mache. Endgültig durchringen konnte ich mich aber nie, da ich einfach keine Lust auf die ganze Arbeit hatte…

Cynthia am 1. April 2008 um 00:11 #

I tried to download it, but it won’t let me unzip. It says that the file is corrupted!

Thanks

Michael Katz am 1. April 2008 um 10:06 #

This was fantastic. Easy to use, great instructions and a very simple way to upgrade. Thank you!!

Geoffrey hughes am 1. April 2008 um 23:39 #

F**k me. Upgraded from 2.3 to 2.5 in about 10 seconds. How easy was that.

Jürgen am 2. April 2008 um 12:58 #

Great plugin! It saved me lots of work, thank you!

Ray am 2. April 2008 um 18:38 #

website resolves OK, but log-in to admin panel after an errorless upgrade from 2.2, getting

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_delete_link() (previously declared in public_html/spinoff/wp-admin/admin-db.php:400) in /public_html/spinoff/wp-admin/includes/bookmark.php on line 43

Si am 3. April 2008 um 00:48 #

Awesome! Went from 2.3.1 to 2.5 with no problems.

The only hitch I had, which isn’t this plugin’s fault, was my host’s apache user is in a different group to my ftp user, so I had to change permissions on the instantupgrade directory to allow it to write to the work directory.

Björn am 3. April 2008 um 10:04 #

Hi Alex,

ich habe WP 2.33 auf 2.5 aktualisiert. Lief eigentlich auch fehlerfrei, aber das admin panel wird nicht mehr angezeigt. Den Aufruf zum Login bekomme ich in neuem Design, aber nach der Anmeldung bekomme ich unter Firefox nur noch nen weißen Bildschirm. IE7 schreibt: Die Website kann diese Seite nicht anzeigen. Woran kann das liegen?

Danke und beste Grüße
Björn

Lyus am 3. April 2008 um 17:46 #

Hi there,

i tested your Instantupgrade and it is great. Only one thing I want to ask:
Because of that I’m a German user I want Instantupgrade not to go for the english Version of wordpress. I want it to upgrade the german version from wordpress-deutschland.org
Where can I change the Source to do so?!?!
Thanks for a quick answer

greets Lyus

Alex Günsche am 3. April 2008 um 18:04 #

Tristan: I remember to have had the same problem on a host of mine. I’m investigating.

Ray: Please deactivate your plugins by temporarily renaming /wp-content/plugins/.

Björn: Bitte ebenfalls testweise /wp-content/plugins/ umbenennen.

Lyus: Die Version von WP Deutschland kann nicht verwendet werden, da die Struktur nicht mit dem originalen WordPress kompatibel ist. Es wird aber bald die Möglichkeit geben, die deutsche WP-Version von de.wordpress.org zu verwenden. Solange musst Du leider noch die englische Version benutzen. Es reicht aber, wenn Du einmalig das Verzeichnis /wp-content/languages/ anlegst und die deutsche Sprachdatei dorthineinkopierst.

whitetern am 3. April 2008 um 19:15 #

hi Alex,

My wordpress is setup on Yahoo web hosting service. do you think this plugin would work on it?

Björn am 4. April 2008 um 07:28 #

Guten Morgen zusammen. Alex, danke für die schnelle Antwort. Das Umbenennen des Plungins-Verzeichnisses hat leider seine Wirkung verfehlt. Kann das Problem mit der Serverkonfiguration zusammenhängen?

Baz L am 4. April 2008 um 12:20 #

Ever considered adding backup as a step in this process?

C Pagani am 4. April 2008 um 18:02 #

All the tests went fine but when I did the actual upgrade all I got was the “Performing upgrade…” notice with the spinning icon, for like 20 minutes now. All the warnings against closing the window scare me. But looking at my site by opening another window it appears that the old version of wordpress is still running without any problems.

Obviously, if my site survives this, I will have to do a totally manual upgrade.

Mark am 5. April 2008 um 00:44 #

I’m getting this error:

Abort pclzip.php : Missing zlib extensions

Any ideas what’s up? Thanks for any help you can offer!

Sidhu am 6. April 2008 um 03:21 #

It is sweet

Thanks

Just few clicks and its done

:-*

Sidhu

Jogos Online am 6. April 2008 um 10:02 #

Perfect, thanks a lot

Will Sagen am 6. April 2008 um 10:58 #

Prima Plugin! Vielen Dank!
(Leider ist mein Trackback wohl hängengeblieben)

Logi am 6. April 2008 um 14:15 #

I’ve copied the plugin into the plugin folder (zip and unpacked).
But I can’t see it in the plugin list. What am I doing wrong?

I also tried renaming the uploaded file with and without ending.

Thanks for help.

Regards Logi

Dick Smith am 7. April 2008 um 21:07 #

I tried to use instant upgrade and received this message.

Something to do with the provider, perhaps?

# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip
# The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

Patricia am 8. April 2008 um 07:05 #

Hi!

This plug-in looks like just what I need. I have my blog on Yahoo Small Business, and even though the documentation says that there is a button for automatic upgrades it isn’t there (I guess old documentation?).

I heard that it’s difficult to upgrade on Yahoo, has anyone tried this plug-in there? (I’ll be upgrading from 2.2 to 2.5). How did it go?

Cheers,
P.

Celebrity am 8. April 2008 um 09:12 #

Fantastic plugin, It saved me lots of work, thank a lot.

Patricia am 8. April 2008 um 18:51 #

@Dick Smith
It sounds like you uploaded your plugin to the plugin folder as a zipped file (as the message you got includes the extension .zip). Did you unzip it before you uploaded it up to the plugins directory on your wordpress?

Samsung am 9. April 2008 um 02:54 #

I’m asking myself why the plugin is not able to use FILESYSTEM next to HTTP and FTP. Wouldn’t it be possible to provide this as the first of three methods?

Alex Günsche am 9. April 2008 um 09:35 #

Samsung: What do you think is the difference between “filesystem” and HTTP?

YoufulFill am 9. April 2008 um 14:39 #

This is a great plugin.

Kev am 10. April 2008 um 22:36 #

I keep getting this message
# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip
The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

Contrary to what Patricia thinks the .zip extension has nothing to do with the plugin being uploaded as a zip it is the extension of the wordpress installation that instant upgrade downloaded to install.

Why cant instant upgrade open the wordpress-2.5.zip?

Kev am 10. April 2008 um 23:31 #

Got this figured out
if you get this error :# Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/wordpress-2.5.zip

chmod the Work folder to 777 and it should work. then you can chmod it back when your finished.

Jerry am 11. April 2008 um 08:55 #

I see a few comments mentioning problems unzipping (amidst all the raves about how well the plugin works) but no answers. How about a little pity for those of us who seem to be clueless?

John Baker am 11. April 2008 um 12:36 #

I like this. It works quickly and easily once it’s set up. I just used it to upgrade to 2.5.
But I’m not sure how it works, even after reading the notes above. It obviously uploads and installs the new WP upgrade on my server, otherwise it wouldn’t work. But does it also put duplicates of those files on my own ‘local’ computer? Or do I have to do that?

Lamp am 11. April 2008 um 22:39 #

Dude!
You just rocked with this!
Congrats!
You solved my life!
Hours of pain just gone!
I used it with Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Win XP, from Wordpress 2.2.3 to 2.5 using http mode. Smoooooooth!

btw. Check your account at Paypal bro!

EgonO am 12. April 2008 um 12:22 #

I’ve installed a fresh 2.5 and wanted to Install the last InstantUpgrade Version from this Page but it dont appear on the plugin-page. any ideas (Plugins-Folder is readable by world)

Problem Solved!

Michael am 16. April 2008 um 08:41 #

For those of you having trouble unzipping the file try downloading it with a browser other than IE. I was getting errors unzipping the file so I tried downloading in Opera and the file unzipped with no problem.

Good Luck! Nice work Alex.

Michael am 16. April 2008 um 15:37 #

I’ve been trying to get this plugin to work but to no avail. When it starts in http mode everything seems fine but on the progress page I just see ‘Instant Upgrade’ at the the top of the page and the rest of the page stays blank. I have left the screen idle for 10 minutes just to make sure but nothing…

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Pierre-Nicolas am 19. April 2008 um 14:23 #

Just awesome ! Thank you so much !

Mssk am 20. April 2008 um 15:05 #

We use the old wp-images file for our post images (deprecated directory). Will your plug-in clobber that? Can you specify additional directories to retain without deleting?

Ryan Hupfer am 25. April 2008 um 23:50 #

Awesome plugin - worked like a charm. It worked so easy and so fast that I didn’t even know it was completed! haha
PhotoCrank thanks you!

Ryan

Dave am 26. April 2008 um 01:38 #

In FTP, pligins folder shows a slightly “ghosty-pale” folder icon for instant upgrade, but it’s not in the wordpress plugins page…only askimet and Hello Dolly.

What am I missing here?

arrianne am 26. April 2008 um 10:10 #

i would like to donate for you..cantact me please

Mike Haubrich, FCD am 26. April 2008 um 13:44 #

I am using Instant Upgrade to go from 2.5 to 2.5.1

I have deactivated all plug-ins and backed up both my database and content folders. I reactivated Instant Upgrade and tried to run the routine. I get this error message:

Error while extracting: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Before I go back to a standard upgrade, is there anything else I can do to make Instant Upgrade work?

I checked the Wordpress forum to see if anyone else had reported this problem, but couldn’t find anything yet.

andy am 28. April 2008 um 05:28 #

hi - i’ve downloaded both this new 1.0beta2 and the 0.2 versions and uploaded them into the wp-plugins folder (after unzipping of course), but still can’t see it in the plugins list. can you please advise? thank you.

Simon am 28. April 2008 um 10:49 #

I am trying to upgrade from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1.
I use the FTP method to upgrade. The Instant Update plugin shows that everything is fine with the upgrade (Result: Everything went smooth. Have fun with your new WordPress version!) , however it shows these two errors:

Warning: include(/home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin-footer.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 72

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin-footer.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/simon/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 72

Now, when I get to the admin page of my blog, I see an empty page. As if some files in wp-admin/ got corrupted.

To fix, I need to refresh manually at least the wp-admin directory which enables the Admin pages in Wordpress. However, it appears I need to upgrade this time manually…

Guy am 28. April 2008 um 12:21 #

Hi Alex, thanks for this great plugin, I’ve used it on several sites and it’s very useful. The only problem is that now I am putting all my sites under version control with SubVersion and when I use this plugin it deletes the .svn folders which are in the wp-admin and wp-includes folders- is there any way of modifying the code to exclude the folders or setting permissions on them which will stop them from being deleted while the plugin upgrades WP?

thanks in advance

Guy

SciFiDrive am 29. April 2008 um 21:45 #

beautiful plugin I installed and upgraded to 2.5.1 in a minute. very smooth! thanks!

Hugo am 1. Mai 2008 um 18:39 #

This single plugin has saved me a LOT of time and several nervous breakdowns!!!

Thank you for developing this little lifesaver!!!

Greetz from Mexico!!!

phx am 2. Mai 2008 um 06:52 #

Hi,

perhaps you should add a note Download with Internet Explorer is not working correctly!
Only with FireFox you get the full archive.

greetz

netboarder am 2. Mai 2008 um 19:16 #

Vielen Dank! Genau das, wonach ich gesucht habe! Spart schließlich Arbeit am Wochenende! Sollte wirklich per default in Wordpress integriert sein!

usaf am 3. Mai 2008 um 03:29 #

wow. it made life so easy this is the greatest plugin of wordpress Thanks

franz tunda am 4. Mai 2008 um 00:47 #

Trying to upgrade to 2.5.1 with ftp method,

I am on the 110mb.com hosting server with the following setup

OS: Debian Linux
PHP Ver: 5.1.6
MySQL Ver: 5.0.27

I receive this error warning

socket_last_error() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in

Thanks for your help

Alex Günsche am 4. Mai 2008 um 01:56 #

The second part of the error message (saying in which file and line the error occured) is the actually interesting one.

Rollo am 10. Mai 2008 um 23:12 #

GREAT plugin I installed in a minute. vThanks for your help

Andy am 17. Mai 2008 um 19:54 #

Wow, this is amazing. I just updated from 2.1 to 2.5.1 (yeah, yeah, I know, lazy), and it went off without a hitch. I have about 8 plugins running, and after re-activating them, they all seem to be okey-dokey.
Nice job!

Maura am 20. Mai 2008 um 16:55 #

Brilliant! I also upgraded from 2.1 to 2.5.1 (Andy…you’re not the only lazy one!) It was a smooth and quick process!

Alex: Many Thanks! I blogged about the plugin as well as donated!

Take care,

~Maura

David Bennett am 26. Mai 2008 um 21:43 #

Excellent plug-in! I upgraded my personal blog to the newest Wordpress software, after being stuck with version 2.0.2 offered from Yahoo web hosting for the last two years. This plug-in is very helpful, and works with Yahoo Web Hosting (although I had to use the http upgrading method). Thanks!!!

Yunar am 1. Juni 2008 um 16:47 #

I use FTP method, i keep getting error “FTP configuration test failed.
Connecting to the FTP host failed.”
Could be this from the hosting company ?
I use servage.net
my target site is offerforus.com

TopWanted am 7. Juni 2008 um 03:00 #

Hi Alex! I wasn’t able to upgrade my wordpress ;(

Upgrade method: FTP.
Error details: # Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip
# The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

I checked /work/ directory but there was no latest.zip file I attached the latest version of WP manually and tried to upgrade my version again but no success.

Please help me to solve this problem. Thank you in advance.

Alex Günsche am 7. Juni 2008 um 12:25 #

TopWanted: I know this bug, I even had it on another site of mine; unfortunately, I haven’t found a fix yet (haven’t been searching to much, tough). Please expect an upgraded version during June.

Sharaz-Curve.Com am 13. Juni 2008 um 03:51 #

Hi Alex Gunsche,

Do we need to activate other plugin or just follow your instructions?

Cheers,

Sharaz-Curve.Com am 13. Juni 2008 um 04:02 #

Hi again,

I got this error;

Performing Upgrade …

* Upgrade method: FTP.
* Connecting to the FTP server …
* Login to FTP server.
* Setting mode to automatic ASCII detection.
* Setting mode to PASV.
* Downloading WordPress installation package …
* Downloading file http://wordpress.org/latest.zip was successful. Filesize: 1372351 bytes.
* Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip
* The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

How to fix it?

Josh am 14. Juni 2008 um 03:30 #

What a wonderfull plugin! So glad I stumbled upon it, I had a site running version 2.0.4, with so many errors. I was too concerned to try and manually upgrade it. I just sutmbled on your plugin and decided to give it ago, backed up everything first ran the setup and within under 1 minute it said it had completed. I checked the homepage and it looked exactly the same. Thinking it hadn’t worked I refreshed the admin and was welcomed with the fresh new admin colors.

Wow that was so easy thanks alot for the for the fantastic plugin!

Reid Walley am 14. Juni 2008 um 08:55 #

DUDE, your plugin totally ROCKS! I upgraded from WP 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 sans any difficulty:) It was super easy!

Make Money Talks am 15. Juni 2008 um 15:55 #

Wow great plugin, i just found it and it’s looking good!

Naseer am 20. Juni 2008 um 03:18 #

awesome neat tool kudos and i like the interface too. Takes away some of the scary stuff related to WP upgrades

Kathy am 24. Juni 2008 um 00:33 #

trying to use http method - plugin installed fine and then when I went to install the upgrade it seems like it’s stalling. it says “performing upgrade” for like 1/2 hour or more. how long should it take? it says “a minute or more”
So then I get impatient and hit the “Upgrade my wordpress” button it just goes abck to the “you need to upgrade” page.
I have yahoo hosting

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webguy am 24. Juni 2008 um 22:41 #

I can’t get past the “Connecting to the FTP host failed”. I can login via telnet or any standard FTP program, so not sure why the plugin has a problem.

Any thoughts?

webguy am 25. Juni 2008 um 21:36 #

For those of you who have the problem “Connecting to the FTP host failed†but are sure your FTP login credentials are correct, my host had to enable DNS doctoring on the firewall to get it to work.

That solved the FTP login problem, but now the script error is stating

“The path seems to be incorrect, a WordPress installation was not found.”

My Wordpress installation is at the root so the path is correct (left it blank) so any ideas on how to correct this error?

webguy am 25. Juni 2008 um 21:57 #

I fixed the above problem by adding “/httpdocs/” to the FTP path and it worked. Hope this helps someone else.

CyberCr33p am 2. Juli 2008 um 19:15 #

Thank you for this great plugin.

turk rap am 2. Juli 2008 um 22:20 #

I receive this error warning

Seren am 3. Juli 2008 um 10:58 #

It worked just fine! Thank you so much, a seamless upgrade! I found out about your plugin in at the SurpassHosting blog.

Money Ideas am 3. Juli 2008 um 16:06 #

I’m so glad I found this plug in. I have been waited for 14 months to upgrade my blog but I was afraid to do it!
Thank you

Kim Bornhoft am 8. Juli 2008 um 21:02 #

Hi,

I’m new to all this. Exactly what fle do I upload in the Wordpress plugin folder? And I do that on the Yahoo file upload section of the Yahoo Small Business…correct?

Ashley am 8. Juli 2008 um 21:45 #

I was able to get the InstantUpgrade plug-in on my WordPress blog, but when I go to “Options” and then click on “InstantUpgrade” I am met with this: The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.

The web address is: http://site.creativekidstuff.com/blog/wp-admin/instantupgrade/admin_config.php

Help please!

Mark LaFlamme am 16. Juli 2008 um 07:35 #

With 2.6 upon us, I would absolutely love for this plug in to work. Like it did when I went to 2.5, Instant Upgrader simply fails to work in either http or ftp mode. Http is most frustrating. It okays all the settings. It goes through as though something is happening, takes roughly 30 seconds to load and then… nothing. Just a blank site admin page and no change at all. If anyone else has experienced this, I’d love to hear about it.

styleguerilla am 18. Juli 2008 um 09:49 #

Hi Alex

Same here:

Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip

Found a fix yet? Seems to be a great pluggin, besides from that

Cheers!

Heman am 18. Juli 2008 um 12:16 #

thx for ur effort, wonderful plugin, really fast and easy!!!

Nice Job!!

David am 18. Juli 2008 um 13:28 #

Thanks for this great plugin. I managed to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6, however, the last part there I met some error with the upgrading of the wordpress database. Basically I had wordpress in another folder instead of my root directory, but InstantUpgrade could not detect….the fix was simple though as I just needed to add the directory name into the URL and tada.

Thanks

Mentalacrobatics am 21. Juli 2008 um 09:58 #

Thanks for this amazing plugin!

For those experiencing the following error:

try changing the permissions on /wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/ to 777

jon payne am 22. Juli 2008 um 05:09 #

FTP would not work, could not connect to ftp server. “connecting to the ftp host failed”. I verified my ftp settings with filezilla which works fine, and used the same login, password and domain name.

HTTP looked like it was working but then it hung at a blank page, no error messages, and the website was not upgraded.

Help??

PS; tried with both firefox and IE.
looks like the same issue as Mark LaFlamme above.

jon payne am 22. Juli 2008 um 05:32 #

BTW, I would be happy to let you look over my shoulder via GoToMeeting, where you could see my screen and watch the process. all I need is an email address and a time so I can send you a meeting invitation.

Charlie am 25. Juli 2008 um 04:27 #

Thanks for the instant upgrade plug-in. It worked great!

nils am 28. Juli 2008 um 17:09 #

I used fantastico to install wordpress, is there no way how I can still use this great plugin?

Dan am 29. Juli 2008 um 08:17 #

I use this plugin with fantastico with no probs whatsoever.
Just use fantastico for the initial setup then leave it alone and use this plugin to upgrade. No probs at all …..so far . I used the http option.

Gunawan am 1. August 2008 um 01:04 #

Thanks you for your sharing the plugin.

Peter John Louie am 7. August 2008 um 13:48 #

Hello!

Tech support help please. =)

I installed the plugin and successfully connected to FTP. Finally, when I click “upgrade my wordpress!” on
http://pjlguy.webservant.us/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=instantupgrade/admin_run.php, I see a little error on my IE bar (bottom left corner warnings), and then the next page displays “InstantUpgrade” text but remains blank below this and for most of the page. The URL remains http://pjlguy.webservant.us/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=instantupgrade/admin_run.php

Thanks,
Peter

smith am 8. August 2008 um 18:38 #

hi,
thanks first - i believe this is a great plugin!

got a new error msg, kind of getting boring here, isn’t it

* Upgrade method: FTP.
* Connecting to the FTP server …
* Login to FTP server.
* Setting mode to automatic ASCII detection.
* Setting mode to PASV.
* Downloading WordPress installation package …
* Downloading file http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6.zip was successful. Filesize: 1511562 bytes.
* Extracting WordPress package wordpress-2.6.zip …
* Error: Directory with new WordPress files doesn’t exist.
* The upgrade process has been aborted, no modifications to your files or databases were applied.

any idea?! thanks!

Björn am 16. August 2008 um 12:31 #

Is there any way to use that plugin without disable php safemode?

Alex Günsche am 16. August 2008 um 13:10 #

Björn: several users reported they were able to use IU despite the Safe Mode. You can try hacking the plugin and disable the Safe Mode checks, but don’t blame me if you break your WordPress installation.

David Kabal am 16. August 2008 um 17:20 #

I upgraded my site using InstantUpgrade… No problems. I upgraded my wife’s site using InstantUpgrade. It *said* everything went smoothly. Then I got a few blank pages. I went to the wp-admin subpage, it said “Database Upgrade Required”. I clicked the button to Upgrade WordPress, then a WP logo on a blank page. I’ve tried multiple times, the site is still down (cassie.kabal.org) and nothing is happening. Please help.

Thanks,
Dave

Alex Günsche am 16. August 2008 um 18:25 #

David, please try deactivating all plugins (temporarily rename the plugins directory) and try again. If that doesn’t help, please try switching to the default theme (rename all other themes in themes). Please let me know if that helped.

David Kabal am 19. August 2008 um 07:32 #

Alex:

Now another site is down (david.kabal.org) after using IU to upgrade from 2.6 to 2.6.1. (i.e., my previous report saying david.kabal.org was working was premature)

I tried all the steps you recommended (I e renamed plugins, renamed all other themes other than default).

I’m really quite down now with both websites not working. Help would be much appreciated!

I can’t get into the admin page, or indeed anything else. Everything is blank!

Thanks,
Dave

David Kabal am 19. August 2008 um 07:42 #

Update…. It appears ALL my websites are down…. (even those using another CMS) Seems to be just a coincidence that this occurred after InstantUpgrade. Sorry for the trouble.

David Kabal am 19. August 2008 um 18:54 #

OK, got my site back up and working (problem turned out to be an upgrade AND a host problem). For anyone else experiencing the following series of events, here’s the symptoms and solutions:

- Upgrade using Instantupgrade
- Try to connect to admin “database needs to be upgraded”
- Click “upgrade”
- Blank WP logo

No pages or content anywhere. Per Alex:

- rename plugins to plugins-
- Try to connect to admin “database needs to be upgraded”
- Click “upgrade”
- Succeeds
- rename plugins- back to plugins
- reactivate plugins

Cheers,
Dave

Christoph am 24. August 2008 um 06:29 #

thats the coolest thing!

moolahking am 28. August 2008 um 16:55 #

So sorry using your contact form to ask for support.

Hi,

Such a great plugin you have. Unfortunately, i was unable to configure my FTP account data after filling all the required fields. Can i know what’s went wrong?

I’ve input all the corrects data in it. But the message prompt “FTP configuration test failed” when i clicked ‘test and save’ button.

Oh, can you specify which wordpress files that i need to make it FTP writable? I already change all the file attributions to writable but again, it didn’t work.

Really need your help. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for your attention.

Joachim am 3. September 2008 um 17:26 #

This plugi is the most useful plugin for WP!!

rafa am 4. September 2008 um 19:05 #

Great job, I’ve been stuck with Wordpress Automatic Update for a while. Due to a function call prohibition of my server I was unable to use that plugin. I googled a little and find your Wordpress Instant Update. Installed it and it works great. I’ve used it on all 4 of my sites, where 3 of them are in other languages, the wp software i mean.
Thanks for the awesome job…

Alex Lover am 9. September 2008 um 17:13 #

InstantUpgrade is very useful plugin, because it save my time every month! Thank You for you for this!!!

isee1 am 9. September 2008 um 21:44 #

I have been using your plugin without disabling my plugins.

Could I be messing something up by doing it?

Thanks btw for a great plugin

ovidiu am 10. September 2008 um 09:13 #

seems ok with http update, but it says its working directory is not writeable, but when I click on “show details” which might help me make adjustments, the link leeds nowhere

Danillo Nunes am 10. September 2008 um 18:16 #

A small cosmetic bug: I have my WordPress core files in another directory than my blog (blog URL is: danillonunes.net and WPURL is: danillonunes.net/wordpress), so the loading image doesn’t appear.

The solution I find is to change the line 49, in init.php, get_bloginfo(’siteurl’) to get_bloginfo(’wpurl’)

ovidiu am 10. September 2008 um 19:38 #

forgot to mention my install is also in a directory, not in the root itsself

Гинеколог am 11. September 2008 um 15:08 #

Update! WordPress 2.6.2

Chris am 11. September 2008 um 15:41 #

Help! I just tried using this plugin and it failed:

Warning: main(/homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/import.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 8

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/import.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /homepages/8/d241685476/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 8

Annys am 11. September 2008 um 19:51 #

Hi! It’s a great plugin but… there seems to be a problem with loading the page. I can’s see my website anymore…
I can still log into admin and it looks so nice (wp 2.6.2). I used 2.2.3 before…
Help please?

explorerpro am 11. September 2008 um 22:13 #

I upgrade from v2.3.1 to v2.6.2

Don’t scare!
- Backup all file , download to local
- Back up DB
- Deactivate all plugin
- Upload it into your WordPress plugins folder
- Change cmod this folder to 777
- Activate the plugin
- I use HTTP
- done!

Tommi am 14. September 2008 um 07:27 #

Hi there

I’d like to ask what’s relative path as my wordpress is subdirectory (www.domain.com/blog/).

I have tried
/blog/
blog/
www.domain.com/blog/

All failed to pass the FTP test…

Thanks and looking forward for the response…

Tommi

Pedro Couto e Santos am 14. September 2008 um 23:15 #

Thank you, this plugin completely fucked up my site, I am reinstalling WordPress by hand as I write this.

Dave am 15. September 2008 um 07:31 #

I suppose I should have thought about it beforehand but this plugin totally tore down my wordpress MU site.
this plug in needs to check for the version of existing WP and what flavor the files are and alert the user before any destructive actions are taken.
shame really as it looks quite good.
i’m not that annoyed as the site was still being built up, but that is a serious fault in the plugin not being able to figure out the correct for either the latest MU or single user built.

Jennifer am 19. September 2008 um 18:54 #

So just that I am clear.

If we use the this InstantUpgrade plugin, it was mentioned that

“when you perform a successful upgrade or reinstallation with the plugin, you will have an out-of-the-box WordPress (wp-content/ and wp-config.php are preserved, of course).”

What happens to all the contents of our blog and all the other plugins we use. Will all that information still be there?

Jennifer am 19. September 2008 um 18:57 #

Tommi

Try /public_html/blog

Hope this helps.

Sjoerd am 22. September 2008 um 21:42 #

I got this error:
“Cannot open wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/latest.zip”

However:
Chmodding the directory wp-content/plugins/instantupgrade/work/ to 777 solved the problem.

Great plugin! Automatic Upgrade plugin did not work but this one is now doing the trick!

Web Systems am 24. September 2008 um 18:42 #

Hello

“Your site configuration is not ok.
Connecting to the FTP host failed.”

I spent 30mins with my server administrator. He even turned off the firewall. Still not working. Server is dedicated P4 with FreeBsd.

Logs showed nothing. Any idea what I should check to find the problem?

regards,
Chris