I’d like to take a quick second and sing the praises of WordPress. Since this blog is relatively new, (this is the sixth post. Ever.), I started with WordPress version 2.9.2 and shortly thereafter saw a message at the top of the WordPress Admin Dashboard saying that version 3.0 was out and that I should upgrade.
Having a tech background and understanding what goes into some software upgrade processes I was a little bit worried. I mean there are companies out there still using Internet Explorer 6, even with all of the pleading from internet companies to upgrade, and Office 2000 because of the trouble involved with upgrading software.
I finally took the plunge a couple days ago and, wow, was it easy. WordPress provides a helpful page in their thorough documentation and the steps are easy to follow. I first made a backup of my WordPress database and saved it to my local machine, which took all of one click through the CPanel admin tool provided by my hosting company. I went into WordPress and disabled all of my plugins, which was again, one click. And I went to the upgrade page in the WordPress Admin and, yes, one click more automatically upgraded WordPress to the new version (taking all of about 2 seconds to finish). Three clicks and I was done!
I went back and turned on my plugins, did a quick check of the blog, and everything was finished. Perhaps I am lucky because I have a new blog and only use a few of the most popular plugins. Nevertheless, color me impressed with the WordPress upgrade process.
