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What I want to do

I want to upgrade Wordpress programmatically to a later version. That I want to do with PHP, lets say from http://www.example.com/?upgrade_wp=true

I already know how to get the URL of the latest version so I don't having any problem with checking for versions or finding the right URL.

Answers I want

  • A link to a tutorial of how this is done.
  • A plugin that does this and not so much more.
  • A hint to the functions that I need to use.

Answers I don't want

  • The way to do it with SVN or subversion.
  • Answers containing Wordpress MU.
  • How to manually doing this.
  • How to do this with other code than PHP.
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Why would you want to install a plugin that does something WP already does out of the box? – moraleida Jun 10 '12 at 19:43
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Absent some example of a non-niche use case, Close-voted as too localized. – Chip Bennett Jun 10 '12 at 19:49
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Answers I want/don't want = invitation for being sarcastic, but I'll refrain myself & instead some useful info: study how InfiniteWP does it... – brasofilo Jun 10 '12 at 22:55
@brasofilo Thanks! InfiniteWP was just what I was going to build. Now I don't need to... – Jens Törnell Jun 12 '12 at 18:23
@ChipBennett How can update Wordpress from the outside be too localized? Many people have done that. Just not that many people show their code like InfiniteWP. – Jens Törnell Jun 12 '12 at 18:25
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closed as too localized by Chip Bennett, m0r7if3r, One Trick Pony, Chris_O, Brian Fegter Aug 27 '12 at 5:59

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A hint to the functions that I need to use.

I'm not sure why you'll want to mimic WP's default behavior, but most of the update logic lies on wp-admin/update-core.php

Check for do_core_upgrade().

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For my question this is the right answer. Thanks! However I solved the problem by using InfiniteWP. It's a self hosted admin for administrating multiple sites at the same time. That way I don't need to build it myself. – Jens Törnell Jun 12 '12 at 18:29
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The trigger function for core update seems to be wp_update_core(), which calls Core_Upgrader class (source).

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Thanks! Voted up. – Jens Törnell Jun 12 '12 at 18:29

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