So it’s been about a weeks since it was out, so I figure, why not? After all I have the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, so this should be a breeze. Now this plugin makes upgrading Wordpress ridiculously simple. It handles file backups, database backups, deactivating and reactivating all plugins, etc.

So I go through the process and I’m not totally disappointed. There were the normal problems we have with all upgrades and some new ones:

• Theme Issues: This only happened on one of my blogs. Heck, it’s an old theme, so that’s to be expected. The widgets didn’t quite work right, but it was fixable.
• Plugin Issues: Of course there will be those. Some plugins haven’t been updated yet, some just required me to update them. And with the new plugin update feature, it was quite easy to fix these problems. Then, there are some plugins I just had to totally disable, but upgrades for these are coming out everyday. I’m down to one old plugin that hasn’t been updated yet.

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Now I don’t have to tell you guys about all the goodies that Wordpress 2.5 brings, but I’ll name a few anyways:

• New fresh Admin theme
• Nice Dashboard
• You can modify the link for “Incoming Links”. Technorati anyone?
• Finally included Tag Management
• Concurrent Post Editing Protection
• One Click Plugin upgrades. Oh yes. It’s about time.
• Built in Gallery
• Nice Flash Media Uploader

There’s just ONE thing that rubs me the wrong way.

They’ve gone an given the admin theme a fixed width layout, designed for a 1024px monitor. Why, Wordpress, why? This is really a pain, after I decided to get (not one, but) two 19″ Wide Screen LCD monitors. Luckily, there’s a plugin that puts things back into perspective.

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