Yeah. Wordpress 2.5.1 is now available for download. According to the announcement page, it fixes over 70 bugs on 2.5 released.

I consider myself lucky since I have planned and allocated my time today to upgrade blogjer at least to Wordpress 2.5. But thank God, the latest version is available there, so this is a bonus for me. In fact, I didn’t even know that 2.5.1 had just been released 2 days ago.

Since this blog was setup almost a year ago, this is the first time I’m upgrading this blog. I’m kinda lazy sometimes to upgrade my Wordpress. Until that Sunday..

The upgrading process runs smoothly. But the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is not working this round. I don’t know why. It got stuck in the step of downloading the latest Wordpress file. So I continued the installation manually. Thanks to Am for the precious Upgrade Wordpress Tutorial. I didn’t know that the upgrade process is pretty simple and straight forward though.

Overall, I did not see any big issue. Only my SK2 is not working properly, it prompts a message error on its plugin setup, but I have since disabled it and enabled back my Akismat temporarily. I’m in a hurry to read a few ebooks that I had just bought yesterday.

I have also migrated blogjer to Serverfreak to take advantage of a more powerful server (hopefully) and to avoid intermittent downtime with Netkl. I still recommend Netkl, it is not their fault either (due to data center issue).

This is the first time I’m doing this. At first I would like to hire someone to do it, but after considering that I have a few more websites (bigger db and file) to be migrated soon, I say to myself why not you do it yourself. Save money and at least I have hands-on experience to do it. Furthermore, if I break apart blogjer, I still have other copy on another hosting.

It takes quite a while to boost my confidence to do it by myself, but these 2 tutorials at howtospoter and optiniche really is a time saver for me. Within an hour everything completed.

However, it took almost 2 days for the DNS replication to complete. When it was first set, DNS was pointing to the new web hosting in within 3 hours. However 1 day after that, it seems that the DNS had pointed back to the old webhosting (I put both server name in my nameserver, to avoid downtime). I’ve no idea why it happened, so in case if you’ve had encountered such a case, I’d appreciate if you can share it.

How to identify if you’re pointed to the new location? You can view the source and look for the line such as below

<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://www.blogjer.com......version=2.5.1' type='text/css' />
<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://www.blogjer.com......version=2.5.1' type='text/css' />
<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://www.blogjer.com......version=2.5.1' type='text/css' />

Btw, did you notice the performance improvement?

Have you upgrade your website?

You might want to consider upgrading your wordpress ASAP if this is what going to happen soon. Some screen shot of my new dashboard

The new dashboard


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Dashboard bottom


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Plugin page


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The new post editor, nice huh?


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Post editor bottom


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The new widget page, the old version function better I think


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Plugin menu, not much changes


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Some menu now located at the right hand side