Looks like it wasn’t Wordpress’ or GoDaddy’s fault that I had such a tough time upgrading The New Businesses Blog yesterday.  I don’t know if I should feel good about that or if I should feel like a dunce.

After yesterday’s near miss, I was kind of afraid to update my two bigger blogs, Saving Without A Budget and Daily Fuel Economy Tip- if anything because if I were to have lost either of those two, I would definitely have taken a long walk off a short pier.  Thankfully (or unfortunately, depending on who you ask) everything went to plan today and both blogs are up and running just fine.

Now that I’ve had a day to tool around with the latest version of Wordpress, I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with the changes.  While I certainly wasn’t displeased with the older version of WP, the newer version is much better.  Here’s why:

• The admin section of WP was completely streamlined and is much more intuitive and less cluttered.
• I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking, but the load times and general speed of the sites appear to be much quicker.
• Almost everything that was compatible with the older versions of WP has carried forward to the latest version.  Granted I haven’t had enough time to find small errors, but I’m pretty confident that there aren’t any major site flaws (aside from my spelling, grammar and content!)
• It came with a built in spell check.  This is probably the best feature of the upgrade.  In order to check my spelling in the previous release, I had to copy and paste my entry into Word, use that spell check and then manually transfer any changes.  Needless to say it was a pain.

So, long story short, the “ordeal” of upgrading is finally over, and despite my near heart attack, I’m glad I made the change.