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There are many guides out there (one in particular I won’t dare mention) about upgrading to 2.5, but I was curious how your experience was.

I’ve personally upgraded two of my blogs — one manually, and one using Keith’s awesome WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. In both cases, I ran into no issues aside from a few incompatible plugins (you did check the list, right?).

To get the ball rolling, here are several links to some upgrade experiences around the web. My hope is to make this post a resource with a list of upgrade guides and experiences. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below (only one link please).

• Alex Frison shares with us how to upgrade 2.5 in 5 minutes.
• Random View shares his experience with upgrading to 2.5.
• Christer Edwards discusses updating, not one, but multiple blogs to WP 2.5 with no issues.
• Jeffro2pt0 discusses his transition to 2.5.
• And of course Socialized Software provides us with an in-depth WordPress 2.5 Review (link removed for suspicion of XSS).

So what was your upgrade experience like?

With WordPress 2.5 due to be released today (Hooray!) now would be a good time to go through a series of upgrade checks to see if your blog is ready for 2.5. Lorelle Van Fossen has written up an excellent article on the BlogHerald in regards to the pre upgrade checks you should perform. These include disabling and or removing old plugins, updating themes and plugins, validation, and checking for compatibilities. Going through this series of pre-flight checks as some would say, will help you prepare for a smooth upgrade process.

I know I’ll be one of the first to upgrade my blog when I have the chance. When will you upgrade yours?

*Note* WordPress 2.5 was TENTATIVELY  scheduled to be release on March 10th, 2008. However, it looks like it’s not ready for production treatment and thus, has not been released.