I did it! I made it! I’m on WordPress 2.5

It feels like WordPress 2.5 came way sooner then expected. I didn’t put upgrading my WordPress install onto my to-do list for this weekend but I decided it would be a good idea to start upgrading the websites at 3am on a Saturday night, I mean what better time?

Here on Markus Land the upgrade went without a hitch, I’d like to thank my Savant-like web development skills but in reality I just lucked out. I also upgraded the install on my mother’s website and unfortunately she wasn’t so lucky. What she doesn’t know is that her website had a nice brokenness to it for a good hour before I could figure out the problem, and then the next morning we discovered another issue with the WordPress dashboard that turned out to be a glitch specific to her K2 theme.

Once I got everything updated I spent a little time exploring the brand new interface which at first was a bit of a shock with everything moved around but overall I’m really digging the minimal Happy Cog redesign. Besides the revamped dashboard, some of the changes I noticed right away include the tag management interface, semi-automatic plug-in upgrading, redesigned visual post editor, media buttons, and of course the gallery functionality. When you look at all of the new features of 2.5 it’s almost overwhelming, I’m not going to bother listing them all - I’ll just direct you folks to the Official Release on the WordPress Development Blog.