WordPress 2.7 now available!
Posted (December 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm PST) by Jason CThere’s a brand new version of WordPress available in the advanced one-click installer — and boy is it pretty. The WP team has spent a lot of time and put quite a bit in the way of resources towards making things both look and work nicer. This release doesn’t contain any security fixes that we’re aware of, but it definitely feels quite a bit faster. Well, at least in our rather unscientific tests it does. Your mileage may vary, of course…
Give your installs an upgrade when you’ve got some free time. And if something goes totally haywire, our support team is here and totally happy to help.
P.S. Our web panel team assures us that the easy one-click installer will be upgraded shortly. Keep an eye on this post for updates.
15 Responses to “WordPress 2.7 now available!”
Can you not include 50 some odd themes this time around? Cause yea its annoying to have to delete them all.
Andrew: That’ll require a change to the one-click installer, but it’s something that’s been considered as a future installer option.
Yeah! Very, very excited about this new release. Can you just make it clear what the relationship will be with the upgrade-wordpress-from-within-wordpress option? I imagine I’ll still want to use 1CIs, right?
yonkeltron: We’ve been talking about figuring out how to sync updates made thru WordPress itself with the one-click installer. But at this point, you can feel free to do either. For our metrics, it’d be nice if you’d use the installer - but if the internal WP upgrader is easier for you, we can’t fault you for that.
Jason C: Perhaps a custom plugin? They have ones to disable various core features so it might work for you. I’d appreciate a ping when you come up with something! Until then, I am one with the DH way.
Stupid question but after updating, I have a “.old” backup. If everything is fine, can I just delete it?
You can delete the .old if everything is working.
I requested the one-click upgrade an hour or so ago and again a half hour ago. No luck so far. Is there a delay?
thnks
I didn’t thought dreamhost would be that fast! What was it again? -Yesterday. A single day for WP2.7 once-click installer. It seems the DH team rightfully thought this is an important update a lot of people like. Good thinking. Okay okay, I must confess I don’t uses one-click installers, but I must say I’m pleased to see how the DH team responds to these kinds of events. I like it, good job, you gained another respect point. ^^
Worked perfectly!
BTW, all my plug-ins as well as my modified theme came through the upgrade (as in the past) smoothly!
Many thanks!
Speaking of plug-ins, do I have to disable all of them before upgrading? I don’t use many but I do use enough that I’d rather not disable them if I don’t have to. TIA
I upgraded to 2.7 and had nothing but trouble. I uninstalled and I installed MovableType. I had issues with that as well so I am wondering if my troubles are actually server related. I can’t view images nor the sites properly. I have since uninstalled everything and will reinstall later.
perfect, thank you 
I upgraded about 20 minutes ago with the one-click installer. All seems fine.