After saying I was going to upgrade to 2.5 it was just a matter of finding the time to do it and at last, today was the day that provided that time. I was pleasantly surprised that all I needed to complete the upgrade process was the Codex Upgrade instructions, phpMyAdmin and an SSH session to my server.

After backing everything up, it took about 10 minutes to ensure I copied everything over correctly without overwriting my heavily customised theme and the plugins I use, then I ran the upgrade script and all was well.

The new editor in “Write Post” is a drastic improvement on the old version, it’s much more simple and better arranged on the page. It also gives you a preview of the permalink you’ll get for your post which I especially like.

I’m sure I’ll have more to say once I delve further in to it, but on first impressions you can colour me impressed.

Old news in the fast moving world of the blog, of course - but Wordpress 2.5 has been released. It looks to be a big step forward (not that I’ve had many complaints with 2.3) and I intend to run the update soon. Would anyone care to share their 2.5 experiences?