Are you having trouble playing that new audio CD you just bought? You wait for a while, then open My Computer or Windows Explorer, and browse through the CD attempting to figure out which file to choose to ensure that you could see the contents of the CD or to play whatever is on the CD?

Introduction

Just recently, I updated WordPress from 2.8 to 3.0.

There are couple of issues a lot more frustrating than having a CD that would not play automatically. If this has occurred to you normally and you want to understand ways to make CDs run automatically 1 they're inserted into the CD drive, then read on.

You might be asking, "Why not just use the auto-update feature?

Manual Installation Basics

Even though I will not place together an in depth tutorial, I will tell you how I updated my test blog in a very simple way.

When you may have a CD drive which will not autorun or autoplay, you will discover some steps you require to take to be sure that your CDs start playing automatically after insertion. The steps to be taken depend on the Operating System which is loaded into your computer and on the kind of CD. Your CD may perhaps include data or audio tracks.

1. First, I backed up the database by going to Tools, then Export within the Admin panel. I then selected Download Export File. This strategy is documented within the post "How to back up your WordPress blog in 60 seconds" by Christopher S. Penn. Type this post title in Google to locate out more.
2. In the Admin panel, there have been the buttons Install Automatically or Download [WordPress version number]. I chose the download link for a manual installation
3. I navigated to the folder the file was downloaded to. This may possibly be a My Documents, Documents or Downloads folder. In my case, it was a Downloads folder within My Documents
4. I unzipped the folder (wordpress-3.01.zip) by right-clicking and selecting Extract All
5. Following the Extract All wizard opens up the extracted folder. I double clicked the wordpress folder
6. From here, I opened up a second Explorer window by going to Start menu, My Computer. From there I navigated to my original WordPress installation. I installed mine in Local Disk (C:), Program Files, Apache Software Foundation, Apache 2.2, htdocs, wordpress
7. Once inside my original wordpress folder, I copied (Ctrl-C) the wp-includes and wp-admin files from my WordPress 3.01 folder and pasted (Ctrl-V) to the original (WordPress 2.8) folder
8. Although I did not do the following step during installation, as my folders have been already set up this way, it's a great concept to set up your folders in Windows XP so they show the full path within the title bar. This way, you can know at a glance which folder you're in
9. As mentioned in the Updating WordPress codex page, I did not copy the wp-content folder, as this would overwrite my existing themes and plugins. For WordPress 3.0, I copied the twentyten theme folder into the wp-content, themes folder to get 3.0's newest default theme
10. Finally, I copied all the files from the top level folder, wordpress, which includes index.php. Then I pasted these into the original (2.8) folder. I didn't overwrite the.htaccess file or the wp-config.php file, leaving these as is. Usually, these files are not included in a typical install. I renamed the wp-config-sample.php file in WP 3.0 as wp-config-sample2.php just in case
11. From here, I was asked to login to my Admin panel once again and prompted to update the database, following the provided link
12. Installation was successful!

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