Verifying a WordPress major upgrade — a 7-step post-upgrade checklist
You followed the step-by-step WP-CLI procedure from W4 , the terminal printed "Success: Core updated successfully," and the session is over. Stopping there is the most common place for post-upgrade problems to slip through undetected. WP-CLI's "success" means the core files were replaced. It doesn't mean the site is working. Whether the database migration completed cleanly, whether plugins are…
Verifying a WordPress major upgrade involves several steps to ensure the upgrade was successful and the site is functioning as expected. The most common mistake is stopping after WP-CLI prints "Success: Core updated successfully." This checklist provides a post-upgrade verification process that goes beyond the success message. It includes checking core file integrity, logging into the admin dashboard, inspecting plugins, examining front-end pages, testing forms and interactions, reviewing e-commerce flows, checking PHP error logs, and purging and rechecking caches.
Each step serves as a go/no-go gate, ensuring critical issues are addressed before proceeding to the next.
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