Wordpress 2.7 Released

Wordpress 2.7 has been officially released to the public since late last night or early this morning.

Just like with any other upgrade I was a bit hesitant in fear that it would mess something up with my theme or plugins.  Especially since there was a database upgrade.

But through gritted teeth and crossed fingers, I clicked upgrade using my Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, and slowly stepped through the process.

Everything, just like usual, went smoothly, and the upgrade completed with no issues, minus my WP Sticky plugin not working now (which doesn’t bother me, I never used it anyway).

I could now breath a sigh of relief.

Some Slight Hesitation

I was only upgrading my Wordpress version because I knew it would benefit me in respects to security, but I was not looking forward to the new admin layouts, with page links and such on the left, and other crazy changes I’d seen in screenshots.

I’ve always used a plugin called Lighter Admin Menus, which put all my menus at the top of the screen with cool drop-downs to easily access everything without having to click an exorbitant amount of times.  I loved this plugin and I wasn’t ready to get rid of it for this change.

After upgrading, the plugin now no longer works, in fact, if you have the plugin activated during upgrade, you will not be able to see your menu items once the upgrade is complete.  So I suggest you deactivate it before upgrading.

Some Unexpected Satisfaction

After upgrading, I spent about an hour this morning playing with all the new features, getting used to the new layout, and familiarizing myself with how to access everything.

That’s when I realized, my bias and resentment towards the new version of Wordpress (had I decided not to upgrade) would have been my killing point.

This new version of Wordpress and all its fancy back-end changes makes it so much easier to manage my blog.

I love Wordpress 2.7!

If you’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.7, what are your opinions of it?

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