I just upgraded my install of wordpress to the newest version, 2.7.  I had been sitting on version 2.5 for a while and figured it was time to make the change.  In the past I was always hesitant to upgrade simply because I’m paranoid of losing all my work.  Yes, it can be backup up prior to upgrading, and believe me, I do.  But this takes a significant amount of time and it seems that every time I do it, a new version of wordpress surfaces and I get the notification that it’s time to upgrade once again.  I knew that 2.7 was going to bring some nice changes to the admin panel, but I wasn’t expecting this.  Simply put, it’s phenomenal, and it looks phenomenal.

It reminds me of the switch from Windows XP to Vista.  Remember how amazed we were at how good Vista looked?  The difference here is that the new version of wordpress doesn’t suck… at all.  And Vista, well, did (suck) (a lot) (more than I expected).  Anyway, if you’re a fellow blogger and you are still using wordpress version 2 point anything other smaller than 7, it’s time to upgrade, my friend.    Added in version 2.7 is support for Gears.  (Correction:  One of my readers pointed out that support for Gears was added in version 2.6 (thanks kenny)). I know very little about Gears at this point, but you can bet I will be doing some research.  All I know is that Gears is another Google enterprise, that makes web-based applications (such as the wp-admin panel) much faster by caching parts of those applications locally.  The result?  A wordpress admin panel that not only looks fantastic, but also has significant speed improvements over previous versions.

Any questions or comments… well, you know what to do.