Today I’ve updated my Wordpress Blogs to Version 2.7 and as ususally the upgrade went smooth and easy without issues.

Starting the new backend, everything looks new and neat and at a short glance through all I wasn’t able to find any issues.
Perhaps I’m not using enough features within my blogs or they really did again a fantastic job. Guess last …

But besides this facelist of the new backend interface I didn’t found much exciting. Honestly I was very happy with version 2.7 and seeing things different now was something irritating. Sure everything was there and worked, but without being able to see fancy new stuff it is more or less just getting over this bride message Version 2.7 is there …. upgrade now.

I couldn’t say that Wordpress is my most favorite CMS system at all. For my feeling it is a stable and reliable, but also flat and basic entry CMS system. Showing you what is possible when doing websites and working with a database in the back. But not really challenging at the end.

Ok?!  Perhaps I should be more carefully with writing my opinion here as for not everyone is used to work with databases like me. But honestly! Often I’m just not able to understand about the issues other people do report about … 3 days more of that RTFM and they would feel ashamed about having asked first.

But more important - While others do actually fail with, the Wordpress folks really do a great job with their product updates.

Yesterday I got told by my newsreader, as also by the running Wordpress itself, that there is a new Wordpress version 2.6 available. Today now I used exactly 10 minutes to update one of my own sites with it and everything (really everything!!) did work smooth again instantly.

That is what I call "ensuring" quality and a real carefully spreading out of versions and product updates. Keep up the good work boys! You’re doing a great job others could learn from.

Nontheless it needs me to decide about another more reliable and stable CMS able to support more complex sites soon.

When I started with this blog I decided for some older template which I only tweaked a bit until I really liked the design. Now being on the most recent Wordpress it was a bit odd this template didn’t support dynamic widgets.

Today I did spend a bit of time overworking the internal template structures to give it a state of the art technical design. You may now think: Huh! He changed something?!

Yeah, thats fine …. As for I did it for me and not for you!

Just now I’m running with actived widgets and even got this odd Archive to work, as it was meant to work! No longer living with this stupid workaround –gulp– about to show thirty one postings on the frontpage for a specific selected month later on being listed completely within the Archive.

Yeah, nobody is perfect! Especially not the original author of this template.

Those insiders reaching this blog might get aware about in seconds, for all others I perhaps should mention that it is running on Wordpress.

When I started with this blog I wanted something basic and easy, to ensure a quick and painless start with my new site. Not having and making too much effort with it, as for it wasn’t really planned to do.
It was more or less just an actual “mood thingy” I grasped for, when I got aware about the offer to request a new “sponsored” and therefor cheap new domain combinde with the new hosting I took with Media Temple.

Nevertheless this blog is now running for nearly 3 month and I’m still happy about blogging … curious eh?!

In between I have alread updated the underlaying Wordpress twice (it is me loving to run on recent and actual versions) and both updates worked like a charm! Especially about that upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 (it’s out for 6 days now) I did yesterday, I was a bit curious about whether or not it could force trouble.

Far away from that! Hey guys, you did a great job writing these update instruction and routines …. The one only question I have …. is about: What is really new at the end? The design of the admin area?!