I have just logged into my blog and been instructed that I need to upgrade my WordPress to version 2.7. I don’t know what anyone else thinks, but it feels to me that for the past few weeks, every time I’ve logged into WordPress to make a post, I’ve been asked to upgrade. I’ve literally only just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5, which as far as I could see had no discernible (or discernable??) advantages over WordPress 2.6. Sometimes I wonder whether I ought to go to the trouble of upgrading at all, but then Babel has installed a nifty little plugin which does most of the work for me, and people who know about computers have given me the impression that these upgrades are more important than I will ever understand. Having had all those issues with 3ix, I don’t want to slack off on upgrades and leave myself open to some other sort of security problems down the line.

So, I have dutifully just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. But now I wish I hadn’t, because I don’t like it. Completely unnecessarily, all the menus have changed place and things I thought I knew how to do, I know can’t automatically find. Fair enough if we need to install upgrades to patch up some security weakness or other, but what is the point of randomly redesigning an already perfectly adequate dashboard just to confuse people? I feel vaguely annoyed I’m not in a very happy frame of mind anyway because there were some depressing things going on at home last night, and this is just yet another irritation. Next time, I think I might just ignore the order to update and see what happens!

Tags: upgrades, wordpress

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