Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 on this blog.  I followed the abbreviated instructions and everything ran smoothly.
YLF will stick with an older version of the platform until we do a major update sometime in 2009, but it is great to install 2.7 on theBlogEasy to see the awesome progress the Wordpress team has made [...]

Wordpress is so simple. Here are the steps I took to get this blog up and running.

Created a database on one of our servers
Downloaded Wordpress 2.6 from Wordpress.org
Set up the “wp-config-sample.php” file and renamed it to “wp-config.php”
Used ftp to put the contents of the unzipped Wordpress folder in the html root folder
Browsed to the installation [...]