How to: Upgrade WordPress Automatically
WordPress Blogging and Miva Merchant
WordPress 2.8 + allows you to automatically run updates from the WordPress admin. As long as you know your FTP username and Password you can run it automatically and it takes care of all the extra steps which save you time and unfortunate mistakes.
To run the auto update you just log into your WordPress admin and if there is an available update there will be a message at the top of the page when you log in that says something like this:
WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Please update now.
You simply need to click on the ‘Please update now.’ link and choose ‘Upgrade Automatically’. Fill in your ‘Hostname’ field with your domain name (example: morditech.com) then in the ‘username’ and ‘password’ field type in your FTP username and password (This may not be the same as your WordPress username and password). The connection type should be set as ‘FTP’. Click the ‘Proceed’ button and let it run. This process may take several minutes because it is doing a number of things including backing up, downloading the new version, and the actual upgrade with a few post upgrade procedures.
Be patient and let it run. If you run into any problems contact your web host and let them know. Usually if there is a problem it is just file permissions that can be easily updated by your WordPress web host.
Good luck and have fun.
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Number of Items Displayed in the Miva Admin
You can change the number of items that are listed on pages within the Miva Admin. For instance if your store has hundreds or thousands of products you may want to see more than just 10 products listed when you click your ‘products’ link. I suggest changing the your ‘items per page’ to ‘100’. Doing this makes it easier to see more data on one page rather than having to click the next button 9 additional times to view the first one hundred items. Keep in mind that the more items you have listed on each page the longer it will take that page to load.
Changing the ‘items per page’ will affect several pages within the Miva Admin. Any page that dynamically lists items on a page for example: products, categories, pages, countries, orders, etc.
Here are the directions on changing your default ‘items per page’. This setting is per Miva Merchant Admin user.
- Log in to Miva Merchant
- Expand ‘Global Settings’ and click ‘users’
- Click ‘EDIT’ next to the user you would like to change the items per page setting
- Click ‘Preferences’
- Change the ‘Items per Page’ field
- Click ‘Update’
- Test it out and your done