Upgraded Wordpress to 2.3.1

I finally got around to upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.3.1. It was extremely painless; I had it done in a matter of minutes. Here were my steps:

  1. Backup database (mysqldump).
  2. Backup entire heirarchy of benjamingolub.com
  3. Overwrite the old wordpress folder with the new one (they recommend not doing this, but I see no problem assuming you backup your old hierarchy)
  4. Visit /wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php
  5. Convert all my categories to tags (found a link in the admin panel to do this)
  6. Replace my categories list in my sidebar with a tag cloud
  7. Get the newest version of my theme (sandbox) which supports tags
  8. Write this post

Nice job Wordpress! I’m digging the plugin update notification feature and the built in tagging.

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