Wordpress Software Upgrade scheduled for 4/27, 10am
We will be upgrading the software that runs this site to Wordpress Mu 2.7.1 on April 27th from 10am to 11am.
Wordpress 2.7.1 offers a streamlined management interface that has been fairly well received. Here’s a good overview of the changes. Here’s another one.
We don’t really have a choice – we have to upgrade sooner rather than later. We wanted to make you aware now of the upcoming change, because soon how you manage your blog will look completely different. All the terminology is the same – you manage pages and posts, you “categorize” or “tag” things, etc. You’ll just find tools in different places in the administrative backend.
Thanks for your patience! We don’t expect a significant amount of downtime, and we won’t have the same performance issues we had in our recent switch.
djcp
April 15, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Please be aware that we’re skipping the upgrade to 2.6.5 alluded to in an earlier post. We’ll be upgrading directly to 2.7.1.
djcp
April 27, 2009 @ 9:57 am
This is on a slightly delayed schedule.
The upgrade needs to be done in two stages – the plan is to start the first stage of the upgrade process today (4/27/09) at 4pm EST. We will complete the second stage of the upgrade process tomorrow (4/28/09) starting at 4pm EST.
We expect that each stage won’t cause significant downtime, but you may see some oddness for an hour or so during the transition. The public face of your blog should function normally. You may see issues with the administrative backend, please clear your browser cache if you’re seeing display oddities when managing your blog.