I finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.8 yesterday. My first attempt to upgrade three days ago had failed due to lack of disk space, so I needed to upgrade my hosting plan first. Before, I used the cheapest hosting plan available at a local hosting company, with only US$5 per year I got 25MB disk space and 1Gb monthly bandwidth. Now after upgrade I have 100MB disk space with 4GB monthly bandwidth, it costs me about US$15 per year. It’s still cheap, I think.

Anyway, after upgrading my hosting plan I immediately upgraded my site to WordPress 2.8. Here’s what I did:

• First, I deactivated all plugins at my WP dashboard
• Second, I went to Control Panel and upgraded using Fantastico Deluxe
• Lastly, I reactivated all of my plugins

That’s it, all done within minutes! That was my first time upgrade experience and I didn’t know it was so easy to be done. So far everything is going fine including my theme and plugins. I didn’t have to reinstall anything. Now that I have extra space left I may try to add some more plugins

I was checking out my WP dashboard when the “WordPress 2.8 is available! Please update now.” announcement on top of it captured my attention. It was not the first time I saw it since it’s been there for a few days, I think, but I never paid attention to it. However, this time I decided to try it.

Since I’m still new with self-hosted WordPress and this is going to be my first upgrade experience, I looked through the help pages first. Apparently there’s a lot of things to do before upgrading. First, I need to backup (off course) my site, then have to find out whether the themes and plugins I’m using are compatible with WP 2.8, and so on… Sounds complicated enough. Anyway, I’ll let you know when I’m finished (that’s if I decide to continue the upgrading plan) .