Yesterday my notebook was acting up and I could hardly work on a post so I decided to reformat. I was done with setting up everything around 2 am and I suddenly remembered I wanted to update this blog to WordPress 2.6..

Typical of me, I messed it up, my apologies to those who dropped by this blog early this morning. It was really messy and arggh I even accidentally deleted my blog directory links and I have no idea how to find those codes and links. And don’t think my carelessness stopped there, I deleted my wp-content folder which contains my theme. I was really in  an awful mood and it made me even madder that I don’t have anyone to blame but myself.

But I am allowing myself some credit – I backed up my database. Lol! Everything is now back to normal after several hours of tweaking here and there. The truth is I didn’t sleep the whole night just to fix the mess I’ve made. My husband remarked I look like a zombie now. So I asked myself, is it worth the effort?

A big YES! Readers of course won’t notice a difference but I really appreciate this new version. What’s new ?

Despite my reservations about upgrading my existing wordpress 2.3 installation, I threw caution to the winds a couple of nights ago and upgraded to wordpress 2.5..

First I checked if my host meets the requirements and then I proceeded to backup my website in case something goes wrong then I deactivated my plugins. The instructions provided by wordpress was simple and easy to follow so I expected it to go smoothly.. Then I did something crazy! I accidentally deleted my wp-config.php file, so when I visited the upgrade page, what do I see but a whole lot of garbled letters! I thought, blast it! I didn’t know what to do ( I was in panicky mood already!) , good thing its easy to get hold of my web host and it was really nice of them to guide me through the backup restoration..

A lesson learned: Delete wp-admin and wp-includes directories, be careful with wp-content and most important: DO NOT DELETE – wp-config.php; wp-content; wp-images; .htaccess; robots.txt!

Whew! Was wordpress 2.5 worth my panic attack?

I’d say yes! Although on readers/visitors won’t even notice the changes well on the users end, wordpress 2.5 dashboard is easy on the eyes. I like the colors used and it looks less cluttered than before.

Have you ever experience going to your favorite store and being told that you can choose anything you want from all things available there and its for FREE? That’s exactly how I am feeling now when I took myself to WordPress’ theme directory.

I am actually a bit disappointed at myself since I got this domain activated its been more than a week and I haven’t really written much. But ask me how many time I’ve changed my theme — countless! haha!

I really should get down to writing and putting some content here. But let me just change themes just for a day..

My excuse, well, readers stay if you have good content of course, but it helps a lot if your site theme, colors and everything is pretty easy on the eyes too..