Paranoid as the chefs are, we never got to upgrade our blog to WP 2.3. We talked about some upgrade plans months back, and even spent quite a deal looking for a new spunky theme for our blog, on top of checking plugin compatibility issues. I fell in love with The Morning After theme, but due to the busy life of the chefs that time, on top of uncertainties if the upgrade will go well and an advice from Maestro not to upgrade to 2.3 yet, no blog upgrade(s) happened, not even a banner change! Months passed, we celebrated our first year anniversary with our old and rusty banner/theme, and WP 2.5 gets released. We heard great things about it, but still remained paranoid as ever. Then I found this Instant Upgrade plugin to automate the installation/upgrade process, making it easy and safe. And I remain paranoid orz. So what I did was to test it first in a local copy of wordpress I have, to see if the upgrade will go smoothly. The upgrade process in my local wordpress blog got stuck in the first phase of downloading the latest wordpress release, and it finally became successful after a little workaround. I installed the plugin in our blog here, then tested it to see if I'll encounter the same problem with my local copy. With a blink of an eye, the blog got upgraded... o.O I was expecting the installation won't proceed or something, but oh well. Voila, the site has been upgraded! with just one broken plugin ^^;;
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