Upgrading to WordPress 2.0.2 from 1.5.2

I’ve been prom­ising to upgrade to Word­Press 2.0.2 for some time, and being on preg­nancy leave seemed to be the right time to do it (up early in the morn­ings, no press­ing work-related pro­jects). As usu­al, the actu­al pro­cess of upgrad­ing was simple and mostly just worked; I use WS-FTP Pro to trans­fer files and it tends to kill the per­mis­sions but a couple of minutes with chmod soon fixed that. Of course it took longer to backup the old files from the 1.5.2 install­a­tion first than to upgrade, for which I am grate­ful. Please let me know of any prob­lems; I don’t expect any, but you nev­er know.

Changes:

• The image upload sys­tem now appears a little more stream­lined and has more options. I’ll find out more about how it works next time I try it out.
• I activ­ated the data­base backup plu­gin, since I’ve been using phpmy­ad­min up till now and mak­ing it easi­er might mean I backup a little more often
• I’m try­ing out the Slim­Stat plu­gin to give me some idea of what people are read­ing on my site. I hope this one does­n’t clog up the data­base too much, oth­er­wise (as happened with a pre­vi­ous stats plu­gin I tried) I’ll have to unin­stall it.

Next step: upgrad­ing the Atom 0.3 feed to Atom 1.0.