Finally, I spared some time on upgrading adorr.net from WordPress 2.6 to 2.8, skipping the 2.7 Coltrane that was a big leap from 2.6, mainly on the back-end changes for user interface and some core architectures.

Some notable features and upgrades on WordPress 2.8 (The Baker) after 2.7 are:

• - Faster and smoother back-end admin panel;
• - New (easier to use) theme install capabilities;
• - Syntax highlighting in the code editor;
• - Improved Widget user interface and support for using more than one widget of the same type;
• - New screen options in every page to better organize the items on the screen.

Although upgrading WordPress is known to be simple and straightforward, I still followed through the WordPress Official Upgrade Guide as I couldn’t afford to lose anything on my site. As usual (bet they haven’t change much on their upgrade guide for some time), it takes only three simple steps. Particularly, the following was what I did to get WordPress 2.8, mainly detailed elaborations on the three simple steps…

1. - Backup database (through phpmyadmin in my shared hosting cpanel)
2. - Backup files (download all files and folders onto my local harddrive through FTP client)
3. - Download WordPress 2.8, extract the files on local harddrive
4. - Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and modify the database connection details
5. - Upload all files and folders (except /wp-content) onto my shared hosting server, replacing any existing files and folders
6. - I have Coltrane replaced with Baker

That easy. Nothing breaks, everything on front-end runs as it is.

I do feel that the back-end admin panel loads faster now. Apparently the team had spent quite a number of effort into cleaning up the codes and refining the architecture a bit.

adorr.net is now on The Baker!

Woot!