When an update pops up on your WordPress Dashboard, you just follow the drill and click on “Upgrade Automatically” and suddenly, it gives you a little shock.

“Could not copy some file:”

“Installation Failed”

Now, you’re stuck with Maintenance mode! Don’t worry, its no big deal, you’ll have to upgrade it manually (takes no genius to figure that out 😀 ). Its pretty easy.

1) Download the new upgrade as a zip file (from wordpress.org).

2) Open the zip file, you’ll have the wordpress source files packaged in a folder called “wordpress”. Extract it somewhere. Repackage it without the “wordpress” folder in their path.

3) Upload this repackaged zip file to your wordpress directory (Filezilla, cPanel etc).

4) Extract / Inflate it there.

5) Goto http://example.com/wp-admin/update-core.php in your browser. (just wp-admin would do i guess)

You’ll get this screen.

6) Just press “Update WordPress Database” and you’re good to go. (This is why I love WordPress)