It’s highly recommended that you upgrade for the usual reason (security). Auto upgrade didn’t work for me, so I performed the upgrade manually and that went off without a hitch. In reviewing the blog’s functionality afterward, I discovered that my categories, blogroll (links) and tags were all missing from sidebar, posts and the backend admin [...]

With each successful update of WordPress, the more comfortable you become when receiving weird fatal error messages, which cause your blog to crash completely until you decode and address them. I used the auto update option to bring Loosely Speaking up to date yesterday. It took about 5 minutes, and then another 5 to calmly [...]