WordPress 2.7

They’ve totally redone the dashboard in WordPress 2.7. I like it…I think. It’s slick, but I’m not sure if it’s as intuitive as the last layout.

I’m about to publish the script I use to automatically (mostly) upgrade to the latest dev version of WordPress. I am at 2.7RC1 right now, for example.

Here are the basic steps:

1. Pull the latest build into a separate directory in your webroot:
   

   svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/

2. Backup your plugins and your conf file (and anything else that’s unique to your install)

3. cp -av the new content onto your existing files.

4. Restore your custom stuff.

5. Navigate to $yoursite/wp-admin and click the “upgrade database” button.

6. Repair permissions (if needed) and remove the svn directories:
   

   find . -type d -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

I’ll post the script that does this automatically for you soon, if anyone’s interested. I’m all about some automation. ::