Upgrading to WordPress 2.7 Quickly

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7.  I was a little scared, but these instructions were easy to follow:  http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress.  I didn’t even follow them that closely.  All I did was:

1. Make a backup using c-panel, and just to be safe also made a backup from the ftp site.
2. Downloaded the new version of WordPress and unzipped it.
3. Deleted the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from my ftp site.
4. Uploaded the new version of these two folders.
5. Copied everything in the root directory of the new version to my ftp sites wordpress root, and overwrote what was there.  This preserves your wp-config file.
6. Compare your wp-config file with wp-config-sample to see if they’ve added anything new in this release.
7. Log into your wp-admin screen, and press the Update Database button.
8. Poof, you’re done.

The new dashboard is nice, and you can drag-and-drop to rearrange the items to customize, much like a Google homepage.

But, by far the best reason to upgrade, is that this is the last manual upgrade you will ever have to do.   This version now contains a one-click upgrade feature to save us all from this level of effort again.

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