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It’s been a while since I installed WordPress manually on my Web hosting server last time. So I decide to upgrade my WordPress to the latest release. The process of upgrading was actually quite simple by following the instructions. Here are the step I took:

1. Download WordPress 2.7.1.
2. Back up my database via my hosting service provider’s database administration tools.
3. Back up all my existing WordPress files onto my local disk via FTP.
4. Upload and overwrite all WordPress files and sub folders with the new release, except the “wp-content” folder, which contains custom plugins and themes.
5. Go back to WordPress admin page (http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/) and upgrade the WordPress database (as simple as clicking on a link) as instructed.

That was it! Now I got a spanking shiny new WordPress interface!

Signed up with Wordpress.com for its free blogging service. Although I have been blogging at Yahoo’s 360 casually for a year or so, it just doesn’t feel like a real blog and it doesn’t have the coolness of blog. Furthermore, Yahoo recently just chose Wordpress to be the blogging platform for its first corporate level blog called Yodel Anecdotal.