Guillotine

For those with blogs I’m sure you are familiar with the upgrade procedure of WordPress. For those that are not familiar I give you a brief rundown. WordPress of course is the software we use to create and maintain our blogs. It is a text editor, publisher, organizer, and even a bit of a messageboard all rolled in to one. At any rate… The software is regularly updated to prevent security issues and to fix bugs, and the rate it updates… Well I’d say there have been at least 5 in the last few months. In the past this meant you either upgrade or you stare at a message telling you to upgrade every time you log in to your blog. Now sometimes this just involved uploading one new file to your server to complete the upgrade, but for anything larger you basically had to upload the entire new program to perform the update.

You can imagine my concern when I updated to version 2.6.5 this week, only to have the dreaded update message pop up only 2 days later telling me I needed to upgrade to 2.7. Oh boy… You mean I gotta do it all over again??? It takes about an hour just to upload the files to my host server, and I just did that a couple days ago. Reluctantly I went ahead with the procedure to discover that it may be the last time I ever have to. For those of us who don’t live on the WordPress site eagerly awaiting every little tidbit of info or every single updated file I’m certain it was a shock to learn that WordPress 2.7 is quite a bit different than 2.6. A completely new looking interface, much more customizable, and the greatest feature they finally decided to implement… Automatic upgrades… Yes… No more uploading the whole program over and over for each update… You just click the update button in WordPress and it’s all taken care of for you.

Very nice, and I thank WordPress for the wonderful new version, but there are a few hiccups like the posting interface (which I’m using now) is a bit slow for some reason, and I haven’t checked yet, but did they ever fix the compatibility issue with Flash 10??? I’m sure those guys are on top of it, and I’ll bet I get to try out the automatic update very soon hopefully with fixes to those issues.