Update WordPress in the dashboard

Keeping WordPress up to date improves the security of your site. You can update WordPress to its latest version from within the dashboard.

Warning: You should always back up your site before updating.

Sign in to WordPress.
At the top left-hand corner of your dashboard, if there's a notification that the new WordPress version is available, select Please update now.

Note: If you don't see the notification, your site is already running on the latest version of WordPress.

Related steps

Your WordPress site will be put into Maintenance Mode until the update completes. After the update, Maintenance Mode is deactivated automatically.
If you can't update WordPress from your website dashboard, try updating WordPress with FTP.
If you don't want to deal with WordPress updates yourself, we also have a WordPress Premium Support service that can take care of that for you.