This website is now on a full new WordPress 2.7 platform and all plugins are updated to the latest release.

I am now really happy with my new laptop an HP Mobile Workstation  which runs on Windows XP. I is really fast on for my kind of work a real workhorse!
But the main reason why I am so happy is this: It runs Adobe Flash 9 ! instead of 10.

On my old laptop I upgraded to Flash 10 ans since then all WordPress 2.7 based Blogs and Sites I wanted to administer ran horrible, and that was not because of some plugin that was at fault.
Also my Blogs on WordPress.com gave me the same administrative problems resulting in not being able to post or even update a post, aarrgh :-(

Where possible I downgraded my 2.7 based sites to 2.6
Which is easy, just follow the same process as upgrading to a new version, but instead of uploading the 2.7 files you upload the 2.6 version and login, upgrade and your done.

I even tried to downgrade to Adobe Flash 10, but no luck there. As soon as I went to a website with Flash the plugin update to 10 again…

On the new laptop I can hold off the Flash Upgrade so I can work with WordPress 2.7 which I must say look great from an administration view.
Coming form 2.6 you still need to get used to the new placements, but it is not that hard to getting used to.

So in short: Don’t upgrade to 2.7 yet if you have Flash 10 installed (Check your Flash version here) if you have version 9, then go ahead but make sure not to upgrade to Flash 10 until this issue is fixed.
For your information, this is NOT a WordPress problem, but a Adobe Flash security problem!

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