WordPress Updates

roseapplemedia.com produced video. Find more tutorials at wordpress.org The WordPress community actively responds to any weaknesses to the core software and makes changes accordingly. To benefit from this you’ll need to be able to upgrade to the latest version quickly and easily. The update screen gives you the ability to upgrade the core WordPress files immediately from the dashboard along with any active or inactive themes and plugins you have installed. While making any of the core updates the site is placed in maintenance mode. While in maintenance mode visitors will see the maintenance message. The maintenance mode can last from a fraction of a second to several minutes depending on your server speed and the extent of the upgrade. The Update screen tells you if you are running the latest version of WordPress and when it was last checked. In addition you can re-install that version from the dashboard or you can download the zip file of that version if you want to manually install the software. WordPress maintains a repository of all the approved themes and plugins for use with the core WordPress software. Developers periodically make changes and updates to these themes and plugins. Any plugins or themes that are in the WordPress repository that have been changed or upgraded and that you have installed on your site, whether they are active or not, will be flagged for any updates as they become available from the developer. These will be listed under either plugins or …