WordPress 2.5 is Out – But I Just Finally got my Blog Looking Halfway Decent

WordPress 2.5 was supposed to be out March 10, 2008, but the official, stable version was finally just released yesterday.  I won’t be upgrading quite yet!

The main reason is that I just finally got my blog looking halfway decent, got my plug-ins working like I want them to, and it seems like only yesterday that I upgraded to version 2.3.3!  I’m just not ready to go through it all again.

The other reason is that I’m not a “first release” kind of person.  I usually let other people get the “first edition” of something and watch to see how it works out before I dive in.  This release does look pretty flawless, though, from the blogs and articles I’ve been reading about it.

I’ve been following along in the forums and it seems that the bugs they did have during the beta release and the RC releases were taken care of.  I really haven’t seen any major problems from my “watching from afar” so far.  The biggest problems seem to be with a few plug-ins that weren’t really written to span new versions of WordPress.

I’m planning to do an upgrade on a different blog, just to get all the bugs out and see what’s involved.  Then I’ll do the big job of upgrading sherryness.com and highfructosehigh.com – and by that time I should have it down.  Seems like the safe way to play it.

And with as little time as I have for my own, personal blogs (I’m too busy fixing up everyone else’s), doing it quick and “right the first time” is a very big deal to me!