I haven’t checked this blog nor logged in to the WordPress Dashboard for a few months. That means there were two jobs that should be accomplished, upgrading WordPress and removing spam comments.

WordPress has already provided steps to perform upgrading in the Readme file. Because I didn’t use theme and plugins from third parties what I did was just uploading all the WordPress files and then pointing browser to the file upgrade.php. I even forgot to rename the file wp-config-sample.php. However it works well.

The advantage of using WP 2.3, besides providing a built-in tagging facility, is it allows user to remove comments with “Mass Edit Mode”. A really time saver, especially because there are about 600 spam comments on this blog that need to be removed. Perhaps it is the time to use Akismet or any other AntiSpam plugin.