When I upgraded my WordPress install, all my quotes started getting matched -- the marks tilted downward on the left side, and upward on the right. That is the WordPress default behavior and it's called "texturize". I guess if your blog is your piece of fancy stationery you like your quotes that way. But I [...]

Today I upgraded my WordPress installation for the first time, to 2.7 'Coltrane'.  The three-step upgrade was as easy and trouble-free as advertised and there's no point in trying to make the excellent Codex instructions any clearer. But I could have been easier on myself still, so here's a cookbook on what I will do [...]