Just upgraded from RC1 to RC2 using the automatic update feature available in 2.7. Painless and crazy fast. I hit the button – watched the steps scroll by and it was over. Upgrading will now actually be faster than backing up. No more need to download, unzip, copy over and such. Now an upgrade will consist of backing up the database, backing up the file system and then hitting the upgrade button. Life is good.
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Word on the street was that anyone still on WP 2.6 should just move on over to 2.7 RC1 now – 2.7 final comes out tonight. I have to say that the new admin interface looks to be very, very sweet. The upgrade took just a few minutes and that was all moving files around. The actual upgrade once everything was transferred to the server was a couple seconds long. I like this already.
I was just scoping out this piece on new WordPress 2.6 features and while it may only be exciting to the folks using WordPress, there was one part that jumped out at me as very cool. It was this, “WordPress 2.6 makes use of Google Gears when available to speedup and cache static files that are loaded every time you visit your WordPress admin panel.”
I was pretty excited when I found out about Gears. I downloaded all the example code and documentation immediately. There are some cool possibilities there I think, and it is just too awesome that I’m not the only one who sees that. And here we have an example where it is not only seen as a possibility but will be made a reality.
So anyway – just thought I’d share my late night excitement over blogging with gears! Coming soon to a WordPress install near you.
del.icio.us is a social book-marking site. But I probably don’t need to tell you that. Anyway, they have a feature where you can set it up so that once a day, any new links you’ve posted there, get sent to your blog as a post. That’s what the “links for 2008-04-26″ post is right before this one.
To be honest, I don’t know that it will be of much value to anyone else, unless for some odd reason they were interested in what I thought was worth bookmarking. But I think that for me it could come in very handy. It was painless to set up and appears to be working properly. Very nice.
If you hit the site in the last 4 minutes or so – you might have seen it hiccup as I moved to Wordpress 2.3. I like to stay current for security more than anything. The new interface is pretty nice too. I did our main page last week and have been real happy with it. There is a new feature – tags – that I haven’t messed with yet.
Looks like the theme came over fine, and all the little extras I’ve wedged into the side columns. Well – I wont go on more, not much of interest to you probably, but I love when upgrades are smooth.
