Wordpress 2.5 Has Hit the Streets

If you are into reading geeky focused blogs you will know that the latest version of Wordpress (2.5) hit the streets yesterday. This is a major upgrade that contains the hard work of hundreds of people and provides some significant improvements in many areas.

If you’re interested in the details then I suggest you read Matt’s post over at Wordpress.org.

I’ll be leaving doing the upgrade here for 7-10 days just to see what might be learnt from other early upgraders. If you are one of my clients I’ll be in touch and we start doing upgrades after I’ve done Working Solo and proven it all OK. If you are doing your own upgrade then I suggest that you do all the regular things – backup your database and theme, disable your plugins, upgrade to 2.5 files, then enable the plugins one by one (just to make sure that none of them conflict with 2.5).

As this upgrade has changed the look and feel of Wordpress I’m going to be running a tech-talk call for clients in 2 weeks time (by then everyone should be upgraded). I’ll contact you with more details soon.

If you’re not a client but would be interested in me runing a “public” Wordpress tech-talk session then let me know. If there is enough interest then I’ll put together a very low cost something (probably around $35/person for 90 mins).