I had heard earlier about the frequency of incremental upgrades to the WordPress platform, and so was unsurprised last night when WP issued a directive to upgrade to version 2.3.3 – an “urgent security release,” something about a flaw in their dechyon-field infrastructure or something equally unintelligible.
Well, better to be safe than sorry. I had some spare time for the upgrade today, so opportunity costs weren’t an issue. On the other hand, I did have private trepidations, and not merely because I’d heard that many WordPress users put off upgrades out of fear, uncertainty, and confusion. I have a rather checkered career of blogging platform upgrades (see: Movable Type), as readers here maywell recall.
There being nothing for it, however, I set about carefully following the rather bleak expanded upgrade instructions…and in the words of Canadian philosopher Alanis Morissette, everything’s just fine, fine, fine. The procedure was indeed more dreaded than dreadful; lots of steps, but each one completely unambiguous.