[wp-docs] Upgrade instructions too hard?

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It's not just the plugin authors that need to do this.... theme authors 
need to take responsibility for that as well. IMHO it's not fair to hold 
the plugin author responsible for something the person who wrote the 
theme/template (who, for all we know has been warned by the plugin author.

Personaly, I always deactivate plugins before doing anykind of upgrade. 
You just never know when something in the core has been changed that is 
going to cause conflict with a plugin. I too have also been plagued 
(sporaticaly) by the overwrite problem. This despite my telling my FTP 
client to overwrite all files. For what ever reason it doen't always take.

Sure, I wish there was an easier way. It would be so cool to be able to 
login to my WP admin dashboard see a big fat link "UPDATE AVAILABLE!" 
and I could click it, and the changed files would be downloaded and put 
in to the correct location, and BAM! the upgrade is done (except for 
maybe running the upgrade.php to get DB changes). But I don't hold any 
hope that 1) it's possible, or 2) that it will ever get done.

Solution: I don't know. I don't really have one. But I do subscribe to 
the philosophy that better to be safe than sorry.

-tg


Podz wrote:

>Matt Mullenweg wrote:
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>>There is a balance between being ridiculously thorough and not
>>overwhelming people. I think we weigh towards the latter right now.
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>What we really need is another article: How to make your upgrading
>easier. For instance, wrapping every function call in if()statements.
>Again though, plugin authors need to play this game too.
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>Also, what about graded instructions - literally the 'short version' and
>the 'long version' ? A changelog version can be figured out by the
>individual themselves.
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>It's also possible to write a generic upgrade doc from which all others
>can be quickly built.
>
>P.
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