Wordpress 2.7 comes with a built-in automatic upgrade utilities inside the control panel. However, some may experienced “Operation Timed Out” followed by “Installation Failed” when doing so. Below are the error which likely to be appear:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip

Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 351500 bytes received

Installation Failed

While getting the problem, here are the solution for Wordpress Upgrade Problem.

1. Go to your Wordpress installation directory on your website.
2. Go to /wp-admin/includes/ folder.
3. Open/edit the file.php . Or you can download the file to your local computer for editing.
4. Look for the line; $response = wp_remote_get($url, array(’timeout’ => 30));
5. Replace it with; $response = wp_remote_get($url, array(’timeout’ => 120));
6. Save the file, or upload back the file. Be sure to backup the original file.
7. Try the “Automatic Upgrade” once again.

The Wordpress upgrade should be working fine now, without the “Operation Timed Out” error.

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