Since last few versions, WordPress comes with an automatic method of upgrading any installed plugins but this method fails on most free web hosting servers. In such a situation, the need of upgrading a plugin manually via ftp arises. Here is a short tutorial on how to do this.
- First of all, go to the plugin’s home page on wordpress .org and do two things there.
- Download the latest version of the plugin by clicking on the download link in the upper right corner.
- Click on the “Installation” tab.
- Read all the content present in this tab carefully to see if the developer of the plugin has given some special instructions about upgrading that particular plugin.
- If yes, then just follow those instructions and ignore the next steps of this tutorial.
- If the developer has not given any specific instructions then follow the general procedure given below.
- Deactivate the plugin by going into the admin panel of your wordpress blog: Dashboard>Plugins
- Log on to the ftp server of your website and delete the files of thet plugin present in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Unzip the plugin file you have just downloaded from wordpress.org.
- Now upload these new files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Go to Dashboard>Plugins in the admin panel of your wordpress blog and activate the plugin.
and you are done!!!!
Note:
To stay on safe side, you may want to backup the database of your blog before going through this procedure.
