Wordpress 2.5 release

As most of my sites use the Wordpress platform for the CMS (content management system), I’ve been following the latest release of Wordpress 2.5 with excitement, which has been in progress for the last 6 months. Here’s a snippet from the Wordpress blog giving you an insight to some of the new features:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

You can see a small video from Matt, the creator of wordpress, playing around with the new gallery feature - I got to admit, this looks cool. Personally I’m going to wait a couple of weeks before up-grading my sites, especially as there are no security issues just to make sure there are no bugs.

Converting my sites over to Wordpress was an excellent business decision I made late last year, with so many plugins available to help drive traffic, further enhance user activity and the ablitity to play with advertising placements with ease, I’ve seen both traffic and revenue increases. There’s a lot of talk about building more open source CMS’s, which I think is complete nuts as there’s not much that can’t be done with using Wordpress.

To see the true potential Wordpress has, check out of my my favorite blogs covering Wordpress sites that take Wordpress’s core code to a whole new level: The Wordpress Publisher blog.

I also have a blog which I up-date from time to time with my favorite themes and plugins which you may want to check out called: Hot Wordpress Themes