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ESMI: Yes

FIGARO:
1. Then you haven’t upgraded very often in the past 3 1/2 years, or
After the first nightmare I only upgraded when there were specific security issues.

2. You have a very complex site with lots of hacks, outdated plugins, etc., or
No hacks – quite a few plugins but they’re updated regularly. merchant911.org/blog/ if you’re curious.

3. Your not very good at upgrading, or
Apparently not

4. You’re exaggerating
Nope

“Conveninence” I could accept if it worked.

Piece of cake? Close. Manual updates aren’t that difficult – did this one in about 15 minutes without a problem. My only issue is that the auto updates have never worked for me. I’d love to know why.

At any rate, thanks to all for the input. This is, after all, a support forum so I’ll stop belly aching ??

I respectfully disagree. A manual upgrade is not reasonable when every upgrade I’ve done in 3 1/2 years has failed at least once and I’ve ended up reinstalling everything but the database. This forum is certainly proof that I’m not the only one. If a manual upgrade is reasonable, why is there a button to do it automatically? Don’t say “convenience” cuz it isn’t convenient to do stuff twice, first the easy way and then the hard way.

And no, I’m not computer ignorant – I’ve been a network admin for over 20 years. Doesn’t make me a WP guru but I do know how to follow directions.

I guess I thought this kludgy bullshit was over when the auto-upgrade came out.

Think they’ll ever get it right? After 3 1/2 years of failed upgrades after doing everything right, I think I’ve concluded it’s time to find something that actually works.

Thanks for the help though. I just thought there might be a reasonable way to do it.

thank you very much arnee!

I’d update, but last time I did that it took me almost a week to get my blog in order. Updating is a nightmare that I don’t want to subject myself to. :- (

I commented out the lines in mysite.org/.htaccess and created .htaccess in mysite.org/blog with those lines. It seems to have resolved the problem.

Which .htaccess – the site root or do I create one in the WordPress root?