So I had been waiting for a while to upgrade to WordPress 2.7, seeing all the screenshots and hooplah over the new version. I expected a huge upgrade process, since it was a major version bump.
I grabbed the tarball, unpacked it over on top of my current WordPress install, surfed over to /wp-admin/upgrade.php and was done.
The new admin panel is nice, and I’m still poking around to customize it a bit more to my liking. I’d like to have less space taken up by the right column on the ‘Add New Post’ page. (If you know how to shrink that right-most column, please comment!)
Here’s to more frequent blogging.
You know what you need to do? Install WordPress out of svn: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion
Basically it’s like so: assume your blog is installed in /path/to/wordpress. Then
1) cd /path/to
2) svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.7/ wordpress
3) Load the /wp-admin page in a browser. It’ll tell you you need to update your DBs. Click a couple buttons and you’re done.
From now on, when you need to upgrade to the latest 2.7 release, you can just do ‘svn up’. When you want to switch from one branch (say, 2.7) to another (2.8), just do ‘cd /path/to/wordpress/; svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.8'.
I upgraded from 2.6.x to 2.7 a moment ago; it took ten seconds, tops.
Steve,
I definitely could have done that, and thought about it too. Maybe when I get some more time to both get that running and file some bugs/patches. Although now that 2.7 has the ‘auto upgrade’ button inside the core of the system, it lowers the bar to upgrading to the latest release.