Praise God! I successfully upgraded at last. This morning, I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 since I was advised by friends that it was necessary for security reason (that got me scared enough to change my prior decision. I do not want my blog hacked!).

Unfortunately, unlike my prior experience when upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to 2.5, the Automatic Upgrade Plug-in got stuck midway during the upgrading process ( I tried several time but got the same result). It gave the following error

“Could Not Initiate Maintenance Mode”

and then politely gave the following message

“Some problems did not allow us to upgrade your blog. You can email me the logs so that I can help debug your problem……”

That was it. I panicked and started Googling up and down to find possible solution to the error. Well, nothing positive turned up (it could be that I was entering wrong information into Google anyway, I was too tensed up). After wasting about 1hour 30minutes, I told myself it is time to try the manual upgrading that I have been dodging from. So I went back to wordpress.org and also read some posts by other bloggers on how to upgrade manually.

Eventually, I followed the following steps to upgrade manually.

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I noticed the announcement of the release of WordPress 2.5.1 in my admin dashboard late in the evening yesterday. I was still contemplating if I should go ahead and upgrade or wait for a little while before upgrading when I stumbled upon a post at xfep, you can read the post here.

My last upgrade from Wordpress 2.3 was dramatic enough, read the post Upgrade Your Wordpress Site Automatically . I am not willing to do two upgrade in quick succession. I am thinking of waiting for the Wordpress 2.5.2 before upgrading. However, I am open to suggestion and technical advice. If you have any, do not hesitate to drop a comment. Thanks in advance. Cheers.