Steps to upgrade Wordpress to latest version

Here are the steps to upgrade Wordpress to the latest version using SSH terminal.

1. Download the latest version of Wordpress:
   

   http://wordpress.org/download/

2. Backup Wordpress install:
   

   [/home/user/public_html] $ tar -cz wordpress > wordpress.tar.gz

3. Backup MySQL database:

   [/home/user/] $ mysqldump --add-drop-table -h localhost -u username -p databasename > mysql-backup-datehere.sql

4. Compress the sql backup file and store elsewhere:
   

   [/home/user/] $ tar -cz mysql-backup-datehere.sql > mysql-backup-datehere.sql.tar.gz

5. Extract new Wordpress files overwriting existing files:
   

   [/home/user/] $ tar -zxvf wordpress-version.tar.gz

6. Visit the Wordpress upgrade page and perform database upgrade:
   

   http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Fin.