I’m a big believer in upgrading to new versions of software when it’s out of the BETA stage, because it affords much easier support. When something goes wrong, I don’t want to be treated to choruses of “That was fixed 3 upgrades ago!” and it’s very easy to find yourself one, two, then three upgrades behind… and even more!
Not to mention that with Wordpress it can be dicey. We all use so many widgets and plugins and different themes that I always hold my breath when I do an upgrade.
I found this program: Wordpress Upgrade Preflight Check , a widget that you can access through your Options menu that will go through the widgets and themes you’re using and alert you of possible problems before you upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.
I’m so glad I did this, because I’ve discovered that the ultra-cool theme I’ve put in for my newest blog… isn’t at all compatible and would have been broken if I had tried to upgrade it, making my site unreadable. So because of that and the fact that I’ve realised it’s not the best when it comes to SEO (it only displays one recent article) I’ve decided to go with a different theme before making the switch.
I’m so glad I found this widget, because it enabled me to take care of potential problems before they became problems! This could have easily cost me half a day (at least) trying to figure out if I hadn’t used the Preflight Check!
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Little side note: Going to be a light posting week for me because I’m a tad under the weather. 
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
nice plug in, i may have look at loading it up soon, thanks