I was busy setting up techstroke.com when my Wordpress dashboard flashed a message saying wordpress 2.6 is available . It was great , like others i was a bit reluctant to upgrading , fearing loss of data or other problems , but believe me it’s easy and necessary so as to prevent your wordpress blog from being hacked .

How to Upgrade :-

Well , that’s really simple for people like me having their blogs , setup by the Dreamhost(my web hosting provider) one-click installer/updater . You can find it in your goodies section , but for others here is how to accomplish the herculean task of upgrading to latest wordpress version .

Wordpress Docs have a article on how to upgrade but i will tell you it is confusing and not good for someone in a hurry, rather go for this plugin Wordpress automatic Upgrade , install it and just activate it and it will do the rest and the best part is it will maintain your initial theme and plugin settings .

WordPress 2.6 doesn’t appear to introduce any mind-blowing new features, but there do appear to be some new  features that will prove useful.

1. Live theme preview – very handy if you frequently change your theme.  Now you won’t affect online users while you experiment
2. Revision history – useful for multi-author blogs 
3. Google Gears support – store WordPress images, scripts etc on a PC to speedup the site
4. Number of active plugins are displayed
5. Image editing in posts has enhanced,

and many more , use it to explore it .

I found the live theme preview and Google gears support most interesting , also take a look at this nice video .