update-blog.sh

#!/bin/sh

# This script performs an automated update of your wordpress blog. 
# Please perform still some logical check (dbupdate, blog testing afterwards and so on)
# No error checking included!


WORKDIR=$HOME/public_html
BLOG_DIR=blog
WORDPRESS_URL=http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
OLD_BLOGDIR=blog-t`date +%Y%m%d`

echo This script tries to automatically update your wordpress software from bash
echo WORKDIR=$WORKDIR
echo BLOG_DIR=$BLOG_DIR
echo DOWNLOAD_URL=$WORDPRESS_URL
echo OLD_BLOGDIR=$OLD_BLOGDIR
echo
echo

cd $WORKDIR
wget $WORDPRESS_URL
unzip latest.zip
rm latest.zip

echo Wordpress should have been downloaded
echo and unpacked to $WORKDIR/wordpress
echo
echo Next: Moving $BLOG_DIR to $OLD_BLOGDIR and moving wordpress/ in place.
read

mv -v $BLOG_DIR $OLD_BLOGDIR 
mv -v wordpress $BLOG_DIR

echo Done
echo
echo
echo Next: Symlinking the config, themes, plugins and uploads


# Install symlinks
cd $BLOG_DIR
ln -s $WORKDIR/blog-data/wp-config.php

cd wp-content
rm -rf plugins
ln -s ../../blog-data/wp-content/plugins

rm -rf themes 
ln -s ../../blog-data/wp-content/themes

echo Done
echo Your blog should be updated now
echo Your themes, plugins and uploads stay at $WORKDDIR/blog-data
echo 

update-plugins.sh

#!/bin/sh

PLUGIN_DIR=$HOME/var/www/blog-data/wp-content/plugins

if [ ! -d $PLUGIN_DIR ]; then
  echo Target folder $PLUGIN_DIR does not exist!
  exit 1
fi

cd $PLUGIN_DIR

for name in *;
do
   echo Checking "${name}"

   if [ ! -d ${name} ]; then
      echo Skipping, no folder.
      continue
   fi

   # Download the plugin file
   wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/${name}.zip || continue 

   # we found a file under the given url, so unzip it (yes, there is no checking if the files is really an update :()
   if [ -f ${name}.zip ]; then
   
     # move the plugin folder out of the way
     mv $name $name-old

     unzip ${name}.zip
     
     rm -fv ${name}.zip
   fi
done