Wordpress 2.5 is on…

I went on to upgrade my blog to wordpress 2.5 yesterday night and I really seem to like it now. The most evident of changes is to the admin dashboard which is really neat and clean and much more organised… It does scroll more than before but then WTH… its cool. And I’m choosing to leave the default blue colours on. They are definitely refreshing everytime I look at them…

The upgrade as the Wordpress team puts it, its just a 5 minute process…

  1. Backup your database in-case things might go wrong… (Believe me, they wont!!! :-) )
  2. Deactivate all plugins from the admin panel so that they might not create problems!!!
  3. Fire up FileZilla, traverse to your wordpress directory, delete wp-admin and wp-include folders.
  4. Upload the new wp-admin and wp-include folders and continue overwriting the other files…
  5. Take care as to what you’re overwriting from the wp-content folder… You might want to save the settings for the older plugins / themes / etc…
  6. Assuming your blog is at abc.com/blog, point your browser to abc.com/blog/upgrade.php to migrate your wordpress mysql database to suit the new 2.5 version.
  7. And you are done…

There are some things I noticed that’ve given me a lot of ease in handling my blog:

  1. The Plugins section can now not only point to newer versions of plugins but also update them in one click… No more downloading the plugin from a 3rd party website, unzip, ftp upload, detect, activate… W00t!!!
  2. Lots of Ajaxy goodness!!!
  3. Widgets support built-in… No more hunting for specific Widget-enabled themes…
  4. All my old themes seem to work… No breakages so far!!!
  5. Multi-file uploader… And its flash javascript, I-Frame based!!! Looks cool! And the progress bar is live… Double W00t!!!
  6. This is a guess: Because the wp-core has been tweaked well, as I read on other forums, it must be giving much faster page loads for the viewers… You peeps temme about this. The cache is being built with every ping… And i guess it’s gonna be waaay faster once the cache starts spitting pages!!!

The Wordpress team has done an amazing job with Wordpress 2.5. Congrats guys!!!

Posted: March 31st, 2008
at 10:29am by The Cruisemaniac

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  1. I need to upgrade soon too!!

    Aashish Solanki

    16 Apr 08 at 11:09 am

     

  2. Just a quick correction: The file uploader is not flash based. It’s just combination of Javascript/IFrame/PHP :)

    Aditya

    21 Apr 08 at 11:48 am

     

  3. @aditya Apologies for the mistake… correction done… :-)

    The Cruisemaniac

    21 Apr 08 at 12:24 pm

     


 

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