WordPress always release their engine most in every 2 month or less. Using command-line will make upgrading wordpress done in 10 seconds.
I assume you have latest version of wordpress in folder called “wordpress”. And i have “wordpress-old” as my old wordpress. Make latest and old on same level folder and do this :
1. Deleting Old WordPress files
1 2 | rm -rf wordpress-old/wp-includes rm -rf wordpress-old/wp-admin/ |
2. Copy New WordPress into Old files
1 2 3 | cp -dR wordpress/wp-includes wordpress-old/ cp -dR wordpress/wp-admin wordpress-old/ cp -dR wordpress/wp-content wordpress-old/ |
3. Check wp-config and compare if there new feature to be added.
4. Login into admin and do “Update Database”
Done! 😀