I am hosting my own wordpress website and very often needed to upgrade the wordpress package. Obviously there is an automatic way to upgrade wordpress which requires FTP server. I do not have FTP server and thus doing the manual way.
There is the official way to upgrade it manually, however, I am using the following methods to upgrade it
Backup wordpress
#Backup the database
#Backup the files
rsync -a wordpress/ wordpress.backup/
Download the latest wordpress
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Extract the tar file
gunzip latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf latest.tar
this creates a wordpress directory
Disable all the plugins
Navigate to the admin panel and disable all the plugins
Copy the updated files
rsync -rtv new_wordpress/wordpress/ old_path/wordpress/
Check the website
Browse the website which usually prompts for the database upgrade.
If everything is OK, you can delete wordpress.backup/ folder
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