To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?
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This is part of a series of posts about Wordpress, you may like to take a look at the others, here they are:
Blogging Platforms - Which one to choose!
Who else has trouble choosing a host?
How to Install Wordpress Themes and Plugins?
What are the best features of Wordpress?
You may have heard that Wordpress has released an upgrade, Wordpress 2.3. I am using Wordpress 2.2 for my blog at the moment, so I have to decide whether I am going to upgrade now or not. Wordpress 2.3 was brought out back in September and has lots of new features including internal tagging. So there is no need anymore for the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin or similar, which a lot of bloggers will find a relief as it can be a bit temperamental.
I have been reading some posts on Wordpress 2.3 while deciding what to do, and I think my major consideration is that Wordpress 2.3 is a large upgrade, the smaller ones being 2.2.1 etc. This seems to be something to consider. When there is a larger upgrade you can bet there will inevitably be some problems or bugs to solve, especially with new features. That’s an argument for not upgrading just yet and to wait for the bugs to be fixed and an update released.
That’s what I have decided to do, I don’t want to complicate things as (touch wood) the blog is running fine at the moment with Wordpress 2.2. So I am going to wait a bit until an update with some bug fix’s is released and then upgrade. I am going to start another blog soon and my host (Bluehost) will install the latest version of Wordpress for that blog, so that will start off with Wordpress 2.3 and I’ll get a chance then to see what it’s like.
I was worried about upgrading partly because I had no idea how to do it, but I have found a plugin that could help, Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin:
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. - Techie Buzz
Now that sounds like my sort of thing!
Mandy
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