Jim “Bava Tuesdays” Groom must have his police scanner on, for he spotted my upgrade to WordPress 2.1 mere minutes after I’d finished. Uncanny fellow.

All looks fine so far. Whatever they did with the SQL back end worked like a charm: everything is much faster and more responsive now. I did have some trouble getting the tabbed editor to show up. I went to the WP forum and found several threads detailing this problem, with plenty of suggestions to try. In my case, it turns out that the Plain Text Paste plug-in (another gift from J. Groom) broke the new feature. Thankfully, the PTP author has already upgraded the plug-in to be compatible with WP 2.1. Open source responsiveness at its finest.

Always a happy day when a WP upgrade goes well. Kudos to the entire WordPress team for the extraordinary work they continue to do.