I just finished upgrading this blog to Word Press 2.0.7 It was effortless.

The greatest amount of time was spent backing up the old structure, files, and data (and no, one should never, ever, skip this).

I had two errors in the process.

1. When I ran the upgrade script it gave me an error message on adding the post_status field to the posts table. Most likely because it was already there. The error message told me that my username did not have sufficient permissions in MySQL.
2. When I attempted to re-activate the Flickr widget it brought down the whole site. I’m guessing that was due to the fact that I hadn’t re-activated the widgets plugin yet (hey I was being linear and alphabetical).

The thing that pushed me to upgrade?

I’m hosted by Yahoo. Yahoo web hosting makes a big deal about automatically upgrading people’s Word Press blogs to the latest version. My version was sitting at 2.0.2 for the longest time. The Word Press support forums answered that one… service not as advertised.

I’m of the opinion that any upgraded software version with security issue improvements should be installed, but hey, I don’t run multi-million dollar server farms.