Download and Upgrade Wordpress 2.8.2

Wordpress Tips July 24th, 2009

I have just upgrade my blog to the latest version of wordpress 2.8.2. So far I didn’t notice any problems or issues on my blog after the upgrade process. Upgrading latest wordpress manually can be a bit risky if you are not a IT technical person or an experience wordpress user. You can use wordpress automatic upgrade feature to let it upgrade for you if you are not experiencing folder permission write issue and unable to connect using FTP connection settings.

One of the reason I choose to upgrade my wordpress 2.6 to latest 2.8.2 because of the loading speed improvement in dashboard, posts, and comments page. Although, this isn’t apply to the front page of my blog but it could save a little time by loading faster admin page. This is especially useful and the end results will be more for low connection user such as my house area.

The plugins management page has been simplify by grouping active and inactive plugins together on the same page. This feature is already exists in version 2.7 but since I have skip version 2.7, I can experience this feature in the latest wordpress 2.8 only.

So, what new features will be available in version 2.9? They have started to work on wordpress 2.9 and let’s see what new improvements are added to wordpress