The longest part of the upgrade to WordPress 3.0 was backing up my databases. I’m running six separate sites on WordPress, one of which was running WP3 RC1. Logging into my host and backing all six up through MySQL took 15 minutes. Upgrading all six sites concurrently took under a minute.
The clean new look of the dashboard is a welcome change, and a unified update panel makes maintaining a site much easier with fewer clicks.
The next step will be to merge these sites into a single WordPress installation using WPMU. That’s going to have to wait for the weekend, however.
Check out the improvements in this recently released video from WordPress.org
