An Illuminating Focus on the Nitty-gritty of Updating WordPress
WordPress is an open source content management system and blogging platform. It has made its mark in the world of active bloggers. WordPress carries off the bell with a number of highly useful applications and plugins for the use of bloggers. The only downside of this blogging-oriented CMS is that it is vulnerable to be hacked. Keeping your WordPress site updated is a way to prevent hackers from hacking the site. It is recommended by the creators of WordPress to keep updating the installed WordPress in a website. Some serious mistakes that webmasters usually make prevent them from updating the WordPress sites. I have essayed this article to provide some tips on how to update Wordpress for your benefit. 
Difference between WordPress Core Files and Theme Files
The tips and techniques of updating WordPress are within the grip of few bloggers. Even experts don’t dare to undertake the task as they labor under the thought that the existing design and functionality of websites installed on WordPress may be affected. In fact, the lack of grasp over the manipulation of the WordPress core and theme files is the root cause of their reluctance. The files that WordPress requires to operate a website normally are the core files. You can download the core files from http://wordPress.org/download. The files that determine the look and feel of a website are theme files. Theme files come with widgets and plugins that help customize the look of websites. The package of WordPress download core files does not include WordPress theme files.
How the Difference is Related to Updating WordPress
Now the question is how the difference between the WordPress theme files and core files is related to updating WordPress. What you need to edit to keep your WordPress site updated are only theme files, widget and plugin files. It is an easy and widely practiced WordPress updating technique. Make sure not editing the core files while developing the WordPress site. Hence, you should know where your theme and core files are stored or located. If the core files are edited and WordPress is updated, you will lose all of the changes. Updating WordPress sounds very impractical if the core files are edited. That is why many webmasters do not take it to task because of their fear of website malfunction.
Updating WordPress without Editing the Core Files
How to update WordPress in order to add certain functionality to a website without editing the core files is a vital question. Installing a particular plug-in to serve the purpose is the answer. Using specific plugins, you can update WordPress to make your website functionally advanced even without editing the core files. What will you do when no plugins offer the functionality that you need? You can log on to http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/ for help. Editing the theme files and specific functional plugins when your website is at the development stage is better than dealing with functionality problems at the time of updating WordPress.
“Manual updating” and “automatic updating” are the two fundamental ways to update WordPress. The former is time-consuming while the later is efficient when time is a considerable matter. The automatic upgrade entails making changes in the WordPress dashboard. Keep your eyes to my next blog focusing on the step-by-step process of “manual updating” and “automatic upgrade”.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
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