1 Backup all files 2 Backup Database 3 Download latest version of WP https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 4 Go to WP document root e.g. /var/www/WordPress/htdocs 5 Delete the old wp-includes and wp-admin directories 6 Do NOT delete your existing wp-content folder. Do NOT delete any files or folders in your existing wp-content directory !!! 7 Copy all files from latest.tar.gz archive to WP document root. (overwrite all) 8 chown -R jenkins:jenkins /var/www/WordPress 9 chmod -R 664 /var/www/WordPress 10 Run Jenkins job to update all files from repository