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I try to find a non hassle way to upgrade the WordPress blog to newer version.

1. Set an upgrade checklist
2. Backup WordPress blog’s database
3. Backup WordPress file and folder and other file
4. Ensure all databases and files are backed up and usable
5. Deactivate plugins
6. Ensure all step above before move on
7. Download new WordPress in http://wordpress.org/download/
8. Delete all files and folder in WordPress except for
-    wp-config.php
-    wp-content folder (folder /cache in wp-content need to be deleted)
-    folder wp-images
-    folder wp-includes/language (delete all file and folder in wp-includes)
-    .htaccess file
-    robot.txt
9. Upload all new WordPress files to WordPress folder in the server.
10. After uploading, upgrade blog in http://YOURURL/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the steps.
11. Activate all plugins and make sure all are usable.
12. Make sure upgraded blog fully functional and error free.

You can upgrade through Fantastico if you have one. Ensure first five steps are follow, log in to CPanel and Fantastico and just follow the instruction to upgrade WordPress blog.

Maybe this is the learning curve my previous blog and database are crashed. All came after I the idea that I want to change my blog location from root folder (public html) to /blog folder. I have backed up everything and follow step-by-step instruction found after I Google. No steps are successful. All I got are errors that I cannot resolve.

I try to restore my WordPress installation in the public html folder, but I got the error said that the same script is alrady installed in the folder, so I cannot installed my WordPress in other folder. What to do? I have to installed my WordPress in /blog folder and then I lost all my previous post in this blog.

I still have the backed up version of the database with pointing to http://shafawi.com and also the version which I update all the post info to http://shafawi.com/blog. I try to append the the updated one into my new WordPress database. Error return, and I couldn’t save it.

Anybody can help me to restore my previous post? Your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you,
Shafawi