Upgrading softwares has always been a tricky and painful task. The
most important thing, which you should keep in your mind, before
upgrading your software, is to create a full backup of your site files
and database file.
All you have to do is, goto your cPanel File Manager and keep a zip backup of all of the magento installation files and then goto phpmyadmin and export that database to a zip sql file.
Now, you are ready to upgrade your magento core.
In order to upgrade Magento, there are various ways, but most of them
are very very complicated , for which you have to end up consulting an
expert to do that for you.
We give a special Magento Upgrade Services for a price for all of our fellow readers. But if you want to do that yourself, then here is an easy way to do that.
We give a special Magento Upgrade Services for a price for all of our fellow readers. But if you want to do that yourself, then here is an easy way to do that.
Goto your Admin Panel > Magento Connect Manager [Not recommended anymore. So, dont try this. Contact us for a quote]
Note: If this is the first time you log in to Magento Connect (i.e. no
packages are listed under the ‘connect.magentocommerce.com/core’
channel), you will need to prepare the downloader by typing “magento-core/Mage_All_Latest”
in the Extension Key field, and then click on the Install button. Once
the initial setup procedure has completed, click on Refresh.
* We highly recommend disabling Magento cache before upgrading
* In layout of any custom theme the usage of catalog/product_list_toolbar block should be changed to page/html_pager:
1) Replace the catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml of your theme by the new one
2) Update catalog.xml layout: should be replaced into
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