I am horrible about keeping WordPress, the software that powers this blog, up to date. Even though the upgrade process has always been fairly simple and has never given me problems in the past, its manual nature always leads me to put it off until that utopic period of free time I am always envisioning.

Tonight I decided to upgrade to the latest version, 2.7. I’ve heard lots of good things about this version and, so far, I like what I see. The new admin interface, while perhaps a bit more monochrome than I would have designed, is very clean and easy to use and all of my plugins (not that I use that many) are working without issue. Perhaps best of all, though, is the fact that this version comes with an automatic upgrade feature, so I’ll never again have to put off a manual upgrade…I hope.

Next on the list is upgrading my custom theme. The sites current design is something I thew together for a blogging tool I was writing myself but have long since abandoned. It was actually my first attempt at a fully CSS-controlled, tableless design. When I switched to WordPress 1.x I brought the design with me and later adapted it to be a WP2.x-compatible theme. But, alas, I haven’t kept up with the developments of WordPress, so my humble theme doesn’t support many of the “new” features like pages, widgets, or tags.

I’ll begin the upgrade as soon as I have some free time…