I performed the dreaded WordPress upgrade today. It turned out to be a piece of cake. The blog backup took only a few minutes and the upgrade consisted of (1) deactivating plugins, (2) upgrading WordPress, (3) upgrading plugins, (4) upgrading themes and (5) re-activating the plugins. Each step took just a few minutes. Total time: about half an hour.
And nothing broke.
But…
I somehow expected some of the things that had disappeared over time – the graphic banner and the navigation to earlier posts being 2 key features – to magically reappear. They didn’t. So I think I have a theme change and graphic redesign task in my future.
The thing that did change, unexpectedly, is the post editor. This is my first post using this new editor. If you are reading this post then I successfully used it. It appears to have a bunch of new layout options which I haven’t investigated yet, but look forward to learning. Maybe I can make the layout a little more dynamic.
Anyway, it seems to have gone well.
So far.