Upgrading Wordpress Plugins

This post will describe the process of upgrading any plugins installed. Most of the time installing manually is more reliable and is recommended (spending 30 minutes fixing a problem that Wordpress created or spending 5 minutes doing it yourself).

How to Upgrade Wordpress Plugins

 * 1) From the Dashboard, click "Plugins" on the left hand navigation bar.
 * 2) *Quick Tip: A number in a circle should inform you how many, if any, plugins need upgrading.
 * 3) On this page, you should see a list of plugins. Ones that need to be updated should be highlighted with a box below them informing you of this.
 * 4) *Upgrade Automatically
 * 5) *#Click "Upgrade Automatically" underneath the desired plugin.
 * 6) *#Fill out the FTP information, and click "Proceed". After this, you will be waiting a bit. Don't close anything.
 * 7) *#If this works, life is good. If not, move on to "Upgrade Manually".
 * 8) *Upgrade Manually
 * 9) *#Click "View version x.x.x Details" underneath the desired plugin.
 * 10) *#From this new page, click "WordPress.org Plugin Page" on the right hand navigation bar.
 * 11) *#From the WordPress.org page, click the orange "Download" button on the right hand navigation bar.
 * 12) *#Extract the file.
 * 13) *#Using a FTP client, upload the plugin to /public_html/team/wp-content/plugins (if you don't know how to use FTP, look here)
 * 14) *#*Merge the plugin folder (just in case there are any preference files or such though it should be in the database).
 * 15) *#**This is only best unless the plugin says otherwise! Read the README.txt!
 * 16) A database upgrade may be required, but this all depends on the plugin. Things should be nominal now.