Updates

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Updates

schlessera opened this issue 7 years ago · 3 comments

Updates

Answer 1 · 2017-10-03T03:49:47.000Z

What is this about?

Answer 2 · 2017-10-03T06:02:48.000Z

Before proceeding with the PHP upgrade, you should run all the latest updates for WP core, your theme and your plugins, to make sure you got any potential compatibility updates/fixes.

Answer 3 · 2017-10-20T18:29:08.000Z

Summary from https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/10/20/php-meeting-recap-october-16th/:

As these updates can also break the site without even getting to the PHP part, this point should therefore mentioned after the “Backup and rollback plan” point. In regards to that, it may be helpful to recommend doing an extra backup after everything has been updated (still before the PHP upgrade) – however only if storing multiple backups is possible with the solution the site owner is using for their backups.