I’ve held off from this for a while but I’ve got a few blogs I need to do it with so I’m writing this guide more for myself than anything. Install the “Maintenance Mode” plugin – it really is quite good, activate it and put the blog into maintenance mode. As my database is probably quite large I’m not going to use PHPMyAdmin to back it up, I shall use ssh.mysqldump –add-drop-table -h mysqlhostserver -u mysqlusername -p databasename And then entering my MySQL password, I was correct my database is almost 13MB. WordPress always recommend you deactivate plugins, as they may not be compatible after the upgrade. I’ve never done this for a single upgrade, but it appears there is… Continue reading »