I had the evening free tonight, and decided to burn some time upgrading my blog to the latest version of WordPress. I checked out the handy upgrade instructions, and then went to work.  In less than 10 minutes, I was all done.

I host my blog on a Debian Linux server at work, and did the upgrade via ssh. To get started, I used the BackUp WordPress plugin to backup my files for safety’s sake, then I disabled all plugins as instructed.  I should mention that all of my plugins were up to date before the upgrade, which is probably a good idea to prevent compatibility issues before they start.

Once I was done that, I ran the following commands using ssh:

$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
$ unzip latest.zip
$ cd public_html
$ mv wp-includes wp-includes.old
$ mv wp-admin wp-admin.old
$ cp *.php .

$ rsync -Cav ../wordpress/wp-content/ wp-content/

With that done, I logged back in to my admin dashboard. WordPress prompted me to update the database, and I was greeted with the stylin’ new interface of WordPress 2.7.1.

Now I’ll have to find something else to do! 😉