On Sunday, May 3rd, from 7 to 9 AM we will upgrade WP to 2.7.1.

Try to avoid posting during this time as you might experience a short service interruption.

While WP 2.7.1 does provide sleeker and friendlier interface, its dashboard interface is quite different from the previous WP.

Try to invest a few minutes to learn about the new dashboard – all the goodies are there but they are positioned differently.

Here is a great video about 2.7.:

And another one, specifically about dashboard changes:

More excellent documentation can be found here.

If you experience any difficulties, please email our blog support.

For those late night bloggers out there you may notice a server slow down between 3-3:30am daily, this is when our systems maintenance scripts are run. We are hoping to do some server infrastructure changes over the summer so this is will no longer be noticeable to the end user.