Today a mixture of boredom and curiousity compelled me to take the plunge with WordPress 2.7 beta. Humorously, I did two upgrades today. By the time I had installed WordPress 2.7 beta 2, beta 3 was released.
The upgrade process was extremely smooth and I experienced no major problems. It’s a follow the instructions type of upgrade. This is even easier in WordPress 2.7 as upgrade functionality is now built in. (Go to Tools -> Update)
As WordPress 2.7 has backwards compatibility with themes built for previous versions, I had no issues on that front either. The hardest part was implementing new features, like comment threading. I found this guide to be very helpful.
This is not the easiest process. Most likely you’re going to be upgrading a theme you didn’t write (as I was) so go through these instructions carefully. I somehow managed to finish them with no major set backs but some of it was just guess work. I finished by changing some styling on the comment threading, implementing an arrow icon (
) and playing with the size of the textarea for comments. (I had to change it to a relative width due to the inline replies)
The process was simple enough that I would recommend advanced users give it a go. Let me know what issues you run into.
#1 by wordpress articles at November 15th, 2008
What are you thinking about beta3? Is it better? I noticed it about one hour ago and also post info about this event on my blog.
I dugg it also
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#2 by clifgriffin at November 16th, 2008
I didn’t use beta 2 for more than a few hours before switching to beta 3. So the most notable improvement was styling. Beta 3 is visually more complete.
Other than that, the new admin panel is taking a little to get used to but makes much better use of available screen real estate so I’m a fan.