I subscribe to the WordPress Development Updates Feed and this morning I got a nice morning surprise: “Post revisioning is in trunk”. This means you will be soon able to create a post, publish it, make a revision, and then keep the old version as well as the new version so you could compare them at a later date. This is one reason I often push clients to Drupal if this is something they need, but to have this in WordPress - this is great news. Great work guys!

I have not updated multiple web sites from WordPress 2.2.x to 2.3 and wanted to share some afterthoughts. I enjoy working with WordPress because of the simplicity of their upgrades.

Eight out of ten sites sites I updated so far to 2.3 had no problems whatsoever.
The two sites (this one was one of them) that had errors were due to outdated plugins. Once I updated the plugins to the latest versions - everything ran smoothly.
None of the themes I had created had any problems and some of them are quite complicated.
Out of all the CMSes I have installed and supported, I think WordPress is by far, the easiest to maintain and the least likely to have major problems after the upgrade. I believe this is because of the talented developers and testers behind WordPress. Great work - it is much appreciated!!

If you have not upgraded yet - be sure and check out my post on upgrading WordPress to 2.3 and enjoy the new version!

I wrote a detailed process on how I upgraded and cleaned out jappler.com to go from WordPress 2.2 to WordPress 2.3. If anyone is interested in the process, check out my “Updating from WordPress 2.2 to 2.3” blog post on my company blog.