I have upgraded the WordPress software which powers this blog to the new 2.7 version. It was painless as usual, downloaded the zipfile which was 1.2 meg in size and it extracted to 5 meg or so. I simply copied the files over the existing ones and off I went.. it just worked.

There is a message to say that the database needs to be upgrade, you press ok and it’s done. The interface is a bit neater and so far, it looks quite nice! I remember when I did this last time with WordPress, it worked ok but then I had all sorts of problems with uploading pictures.. it was buggy.

The WordPress team were obviously a lot more careful this time and I am pleased with it… so far no problems at all. There are a few nice features, the quick post bit where you can just log in and type something and upload to your blog…

I like free software and WordPress is definately one of my favourites!

Go to the WordPress webpage here: http://wordpress.org/download/