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WordPress, my favorite CMS, has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards which I think is a great milestone for WordPress. It also was first runner up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS Software category. I’ve always believed that WordPress was the most scalable and easy [...]

This post is just a quick heads up for those of you that have WordPress blogs and are planning to upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (the latest subversion which is 2.8.1 2 has come out recently). You might encounter a problem which I just did when I upgraded using the Automatic Upgrade option (which IMHO is [...]

Upgrading WordPress is supposed to be an easy job, but many people get it wrong and end up with problems that are not apparent until after they upgraded. Even though WordPress upgrades can now be done automatically from the WordPress admin just like you do with plugins, there still remains many who haven’t upgraded to [...]

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7 or “Coltrane,” which is not my usual practice, as I tend to wait for the subversions to come out first. But in this case, WordPress 2.7 is such a radical change that I had to upgrade. And I am pleased to say, it looks great. The admin look and [...]

WordPress is that blog CMS that powers millions of blogs in the blogosphere. As a WordPress user, I can understand why many consider WordPress the best thing since sliced bread. But, there are some things about WordPress which annoy me. Of course, nothing is perfect, but at least we can keep working on them to [...]

Finally, WordPress 2.5 is out. Some of you may know that WordPress 2.4 was skipped in March, to instead release it as WordPress 2.5. For me, I have no complaints on this one, except to make upgrading to future versions of WordPress as easy as they pump those versions out. In other words, I’m hoping [...]