Lee Kelleher’s Weblog

Now that I’ve found my new best friend (the sourcecode short-code), I want to put it to good use now.

Here’s a quick Unix shell script that I use to upgrade my WordPress installations:

#!/bin/sh
# WordPress Update Script
# Written by: Lee Kelleher
# Released: 2008-04-23
# Email: lee # at # vertino # dot # net
# Released under GPL

echo "Downloading current version of WordPress..."
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

echo "Uncompressing WordPress archive..."
tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

echo "Removing downloaded archive..."
rm -f latest.tar.gz

echo "WordPress Upgrade complete!"

It’s a very very basic script… if you’re looking for something more user-friendly, (with back-ups), then either take a read of the WordPress Codex article, or download a better Unix shell script.

My version suits my purposes nicely.

I feel like a complete n00b … I’ve only just found out how to mark-up source-code snippets on WordPress.com

It’s in their FAQs: How do I post source code?

Essentially you use the short-code: [sourcecode language='css']…[/sourcecode]

Here’s an example:

// A "Hello World!" program in C#
class Hello
{
   static void Main()
   {
      System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
   }
}

I knew about WP.org plugins that did this, but I’ve been scratching my head on how do this on WP.com for ages now!