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Originally Posted by warlock5
I'm not much of a technical guy, but for one of my hosts all i have to do is log into cpanel and click on the backup icon and it click a few more times to backup all of my mysql databases.
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That's only IF your host has gotten CPanel to update their stuff. Using this and ZenCart myself, I can tell you that CPanel is about two to three releases behind normally. I don't trust cPanel to update. That's my job.
Go to the WordPress website. Go to the Download Page. They will have listed there the current version of the software. Check your current version (at the bottom of any Wordpress admin page) If you have to update, download the software. Unzip it to your local PC.
FTP to your site. IF you have done your theme the proper way (using the wordpress tools) then you just need to upload the software over top of the existing software (after backing it up and backing up the SQL database of course). If not, then copy the files that are your theme to a local directoy on your PC, backup the current version and upload the new install. Rename the "Install" directory and CHMOD one of the files in the "admin" folder to 444 so it can't be changed. Put your theme back in place if you need to.
Go and check your blog out and make sure everything is working correctly and that's it. Takes about 10 minutes or so.