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Upgraded To WordPress 2.5

If you haven’t found out by now, WordPress 2.5 has been released.  It includes a bunch of new stuff in the admin area including, automatic upgrades for plugins, media gallery, upload music, pics, and video, and tons of other changes.  You can read more about the features in WordPress 2.5 here.

I’ve been testing the plugin upgrade functionality, and I have to say that it works just fine.  I’ve upgraded 5 sites to WordPress 2.5 in the last hour and upgraded every plugin that needed it.  No problems here.

I’ll be going through my themes to make sure that all everything works ok, but so far on my test server, there doesn’t seem to be any issues.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, then head on over to WordPress.org and do so.  You won’t regret it.

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March 29th, 2008
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A New Default Theme Contest

Ian Stewart over at ThemeShaper is giving away 7 premium iThemes WordPress themes to the winner of their default theme contest. It’s a great idea to help come up with a new default theme, and I applaud his efforts.

I made a comment on the post that, after further reflection, I’d like to expand on here.

It is my opinion that the new default theme would need to embrace the newbies and intermediate users who are looking at WordPress as not only a blogging platform and CMS, but also as an outlet for their creativity and passion.

The question is: “How can we achieve that?”
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Published
March 18th, 2008
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