I’m quite excited and pleased at the moment because I just downloaded the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, which in a nutshell, does the following things:
- Creates backups of the WordPress database and the WordPress source files
- Downloads the latest copy of WordPress onto the server that WordPress is installed on
- Deactivates all plugins, remembering which ones you’ve been using
- Overwrites all the old WordPress files with the new files
- Activates all your old plugins again
So, in short, if you are running a WordPress blog I recommend that you download the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin immediately. The plugin works on all WordPress installations from version 1.5 upwards.