I’ve been upgrading WordPress for almost 4 years now and since I manage about 20 blogs, I have learned to figure out how to upgrade your WordPress faster than ever using SSH and wget command.
For one, you will need a dedicated server/VPS that supports SSH. Otherwise you won’t be able to do it.
Here’s exactly how I do it.
1) I go to my WordPress directory using the command cd. ~ 2 seconds
2) I use
For those of you who are trying to upgrade from PHP 5.2 because your application requires PHP 5.2 or above, you can use this hack to upgrade your web server running CentOS. Since CentOS doesn’t officially support PHP 5.2 officially yet, this could possibly be a great workaround.
Word of caution, this hack has worked fine for me for a new Twitter app site I am making that requires use of PHP 5.2 but if you have non-standard customizations to your server, you might want to test it first.
I’ve also found that JSON library that comes with PHP 5.2 is like 20 times fast