A recent alert went out about a worm invading Wordpress blogs that aren’t updated.  This alert is real and particularly  if you allow multiple users on your blog, the threat needs to be treated seriously.

If you are choosing to do the upgrade yourself there are some things you need to do first:

1.  Backup your existing blog – there’s a great backup plugin I use all the time.

2.  Check the amount of webspace left available – if less than 20megs, get the webspace increased first, or you will experience a crash. Believe me – it’s happened to me.

3.  Login to your control panel and then click on the Fantastico icon at the bottom of the panel – it’s blue.

4.  Click on Wordpress on the left menu and then upgrade on the right-hand side of the page and follow the prompts.  Save the file information it gives you for restoring – just in case that’s needed. I usually save that file with the rest of the webfiles for the blog on my computer.

5.  View your blog – it should be showing fine.

If I manage your blog for you anyway, then I will be doing this automatically for you and you may find the dashboard of your blog looks a bit different next time you login – depending on the version of Wordpress you were using previously.

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