Keeping up with software updates is considered best practice, but it can be a pain. WordPress is no different. All my previous WordPress upgrades have been smooth, but I was reluctant to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 because I was using the Jerome’s Keywords plugin (which enables tagging) and feared that it would conflict with the native tagging support in WordPress 2.3. That was before I learnt that WordPress 2.3 has import support for plugins like Jerome’s Keywords, Ultimate Tag Warrior, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag. The nagging knowledge that I should upgrade finally won me over this week, but my fears realized and it took me a few hours to get my site back up. Here’s what I have learned. (more…)