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[joe_cot]

Originally published at Joe Terranova. You can comment here or there.

Well, I’ve updated to Wordpress 2.5. With that, I’ve also changed my theme to one that supports widgets.

This is spurred by a request Dave made the other day, to have a way to print blog posts in a readable way, without comments. To this end, I added the wp-print plugin, which

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[captainhogan]

I'm nervous about upgrading to 2.5 because when I upgraded to 2.4, it messed my install up so badly I had to just delete the whole thing, and reinstall it from scratch. Thankfully, wordpress has a very nice export feature for just such an occasion.

[joe_cot]

before you upgrade:
a) backup the database
b) backup the install

after that, if it breaks, restore it, and figure out what went wrong. I do that for anything but the most minor of point releases.

[captainhogan]

Now you see, there was no 2 minute dance party involved in those instructions, and any procedure that doesn't involve a two minute dance party are procedures I have no desire to involve myself in.