It’s been bothering me having that old of a version of Wordpress running, but I didn’t feel like going through the pain of figuring out the upgrade. Well this evening I was reading an article on linux.com about the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, so I thought I’d give it a shot. It wasn’t as smooth as I’d hoped but it seems to have gotten the job done.

I installed the plugin then started the process. The plugin stated that it would ask for my “ftp credentials” so it could gain write access, but it never did. I ended up getting permission denied errors 3 or 4 times. I also don’t think it even completed the last couple of steps it was supposed to take.

After the upgrade I went to view the site and all my categories were missing. Looking at the database, the records were still there but they were all blank. Luckily I only have a few categories and was able to just go into the database and re-enter them. Although I think I’ll start using tags from now on. And on a random tangent, anyone know if there’s a way to do rss feeds based on a tag or a category? So that rss feed only shows posts that have that tag/category.

I really like the admin for 2.6. Quite professional feeling. Now I just need to get the actual site looking not so ugly. And figure out what these ‘widget’ things are….

-Dexter-