Pat Myself on the Back

The newest version of WordPress is out: 3.0.2. Somehow I missed version 3.0.1, but definitely got the nasty-gram of “update or else” today.

I just love the idea of being able to update my entire site automatically (or ‘auto-magically’ as I like to say) as I do with some of my nifty plug-ins.

So, thinking it’s going to be easy-peasy I pressed the fancy update automatically button…and wait…and wait. And then, the fatal error shows up:

Permission denied in /home/public_html/index_files/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 200

Ugh.

As I like to say to folks, I write a lot about IT Professionals but I’m not one myself…kind of like “I play one on TV, but don’t ask me to fix your computer.”

But, here’s where the cool stuff happens. The fabulous community of WordPress users have lots of good, useful information for newbies (or noobs?) like me. Between that and the do-it-yourself Codex I figured out how to upgrade manually and, look…my site didn’t self-destruct! And I still have all of my fabulous theme modifications.

A big pat on the back for me…and maybe a beer.

Oh and did I mention I just earned my green belt in Kenpo karate? Life is good.