I’ve run DiamondLime on version 1.5 of Wordpress for about 8 months now. Everything has been working fine, so when version 2.0 of Wordpress came out, I was reluctant to change—if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, you know?

Eventually, though, I would have to upgrade—support and updates tend to shift towards newer versions, and I don’t want to become the victim of some hack of old versions. I’ve waited for several months since version 2.0 was released to make sure it is stable and happy, and I finally took the leap and upgraded this weekend.

Simple Upgrade

Upgrading Wordpress is, thankfully, a simple process. The most difficult part was backing everything up before I installed the new files, but even that was easy with this great tutorial on backing up your Wordpress MySQL database.

Spam Is Gone - Akismet Saves the Day

I also enabled Akismet (I was going to install it anyway, but having it installed by default is great!), grabbed my API key, entered the key in the configuration, and kissed comment spam goodbye. I haven’t seen any get through since I installed it, and I hope it stays that way!

Spit Polish

Finally, I took some time to update a few visual items on the site, hopefully improving the overall look, feel, and usability somewhat. The biggest of these updates is simply adding a more prominent picture of myself so that my readers can connect with me better.

For the most part, readers of the Lime Blog won’t even notice the difference these changes make, but I was happy to get them done and to be able to continue with creating content instead of spending time on management issues. I can also personally vouch for Wordpress v. 2.0 and Akismet—you want your blog running these two pieces of software!