This weekend I had some extra time and so I made the switch to WordPress 2.5.1. Note that I installed 2.5.1 and not 2.5. The folks at WordPress already found and fixed a few bugs.

Overall the upgrade went very well. I only had two small problems.

The first was with the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. This is the third time I’ve used this plugin. It’s failed both times I’ve used it on this blog. I’ve also used it with great success on another blog. It can be really messy to cleanup from a failed “automatic” upgrade so I think I’m going to stick to manual upgrades.

The second problem was a minor issue with the Popularity Contest software that powers the “Most Popular Posts” section on the right of the page. Andrew Daum has a post about an code change that fixed the problem.

So far I’m enjoying the new dashboard layout in 2.5.1. Things are in different places but the changes aren’t overwhelming. It’s still good ‘ol WordPress.

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