One good thing about not sleeping is the amount of things I can get done, including things I usually stress over and avoid. Upgrading WordPress is like that. I’ve been test driving the 2.5 release candidates on my shadow site for a couple of weeks with no problems, so when the official stable release came out yesterday morning, I jumped right in with both my sites. I’ve done 2 more this morning, after being sensible and doing database backups first.

Under normal conditions I’m so afraid of screwing things up that I sit and stare at Filezilla for half an hour before I work up the nerve to drag and drop the first replacement directory. But this time I just hit the button and did it, knowing I had everything I needed to restore it to the old version if necessary. I wish I could have this level of confidence and still sleep.

2.5 is very different from 2.3, with a completely new interface. One nice feature is the one button plugin update, which worked satisfactorily when I tested it out with Akismet. Also, the upload/insert media function has been streamlined, and a media library keeps track of everything you’ve uploaded previously. The native tagging support, added in 2.3, is still there, though I haven’t played with it yet.

So far all the plugins I use seem to work, though I’ll be checking my error logs for a few days to make sure nothing is broken.

There’s a lot more here, but I haven’t explored everything yet. But so far I’m pleased with it. Anyone else upgraded yet? What do you think of it?