I had decided to upgrade my wordpress blog to the 2.3 version once it gets released but I was planning to create a duplicate of this blog and work on it for couple of weeks before overwriting this original blog with the upgraded copy. I had never imagined that the whole upgradation process will go so smoothly without any database schema, plugin or theme issues and with literally zero downtime.

My blog is running on WordPress 2.3 version now! But you can’t see any difference? That’s the whole point! :)
I did not disable a single plugin during the upgradation process though I still need to test if all of them are working properly or not. They do not currently produce any observable bugs at the least. Throw me an email if you find a part of the site broken.

To be completely honest, the site did go down for around 40 seconds towards the end but that was because I goofed up a little bit. A simple rename set everything right. I am now planning to disable/uninstall some of the plugins, make a list of additional plugins to install and also search for a more 2.3 friendly theme. I am happy with categories for now, so I am keeping them; tags will have to wait.

If I can find time, I will try to document the process that I followed to upgrade this blog which I did in less than 30 minutes. I followed the subversion procedure to upgrade the blog. More details soon…
Update: Done, I have documented the entire procedure.