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Brendan Lawton
Courses Plus Student 79 PointsUpload zipped wordpress folder via cPanel file manager if you have a slow connection
..And then unzip the contents. It takes so much less time
2 Answers
Steve Smith
12,955 PointsIf you've got command line access to your server, you can get the latest version of WordPress and unzip it all from the CLI.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
This will download the current version of WordPress
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
This will unzip the file into a wordpress directory.
I recommend moving all the files from inside the wordpress directory out to the root of the web server directory so that your urls don't look like 'mydomain.com/wordpress/'
Do do that change directory into the wordpress directory
cd wordpress
Move everything (*) up one level (..)
mv * ..
Move back to the root directory
cd ..
Then cleanup the empty wordpress folder and the downloaded zip file
rm -R wordpress rm latest.tar.qz
Brendan Lawton
Courses Plus Student 79 PointsEven better!