In this tutorial I will teach you how to upgrade a wordpress plugin on your blog.

It is important to keep your plugins up to date. There are few reasons why a plugin may have been updated:

Security Issue.

May not work with the latest version of Wordpress.

New features have been added.

Click the following link if you don’t know how to install a wordpress plugin.

Step One

Wordpress have been very helpful and will tell us if there is a newer version of a plugin directly in the plugin screen so you don’t need to keep checking.

You will see a number on the plugin tab telling you if any plugins need updating:

To check which plugin(s) need updating click on the plugin tab this will show you the list of plugins you have installed on your blog, any that need updating will have below the plugin details “There is a new version of (Plugin Name) available. View version (version number) Details or upgrade automatically” like this:

Step Two

To upgrade the plugin simply click the upgrade automatically link.

Once the plugin is updated successfully you will see the following screen:

Click return to plugin page link and the number next on the plugin tab and the new version message should have disappeared.

Congratulations you have successfully upgraded a wordpress plugin.