Upgraded WordPress from 1.5.1 to version 2 (specifically 2.0.2) yesterday.
I actually had planned to do this for a while and grabbed the 2.0.1 release, but 2.0.2 came out as a security release only a few days ago.
Despite what many in the blogosphere experienced, the upgrade was very straightforward. All you need to do is dump the wordpress database in MySQL, install the new version, insert the old database, and run the upgrade.php script. In fact, most of the blog functionality was there before I ran the upgrade script. Only the categories seemed to be out of order.
Oh, yeah, gedda.info is also now running inside a Xen virtual machine. Please let me know of any performance issues 😉
Re WordPress 2, so far the user experience is an improvement over 1.5. For starters, forms are handled more sanely in Konqueror, thanks for that!. I just love it’s integrated spell checking.
There are also numerous presentation improvements, and hopefully the image upload form works ok. See below…
The WYSIWYG image upload tool seems OK, but looks as though you have to enter the image name and description twice.
For now, it’s going through the old code and finding all the tweaks I missed.
Rodney
PS. The Akismet anti-spam plugin, now shipping with WP2, is working well and is taking care of this annoying (and growing) problem.
