Have to say, I’ve got nothing but good things to say about where WordPress has gone. I was a little worried when I decided to switch over to WordPress a year ago. I was worried that the first upgrade would break my theme (which I’ve redesigned about a million times since then), that the upgrade would make me lose data from the database, that every upgrade would turn out to be a freakish chore that took a whole weekend…
…but I figured it was worth it to let someone else worry about coding for security and maintainability instead of me spending my time on it for the blog software I wrote for myself before. If I’m not spending my time worrying about whether or not I escaped something properly, I can spend that time working on other things, like site design or freelance work or drawing *cough*or playing WoW*cough*.
Instead what I’ve found is that upgrading is painless and so far hasn’t caused a single problem. It takes about three minutes and most of that time is actually me taking a backup “just in case”. I’ve had no problem posting code snippets (which seems to cause some blog software to choke) or with putting special code in just for particular posts. And I have made extensive use of being able to save things as drafts. It’s really come a long way. I would definitely recommend it if you’re looking for blog software.