Jul 16 2008
WordPress 2.6 Has Been Released
Well it seems that another update has just been released by the creators of WordPress. Information regarding the update can be found on their blog. It seem that they are ahead of schedule and have made some new features.
I just did the upgrade for all my blogs and to be all honest, I have not found anything that just jumped out as all the new. However, the claims are that it fixed many bugs and there are some cool new features. Maybe I will see them as I need them.
For those of you who are planning to upgrade, I recommend one of two ways. The first way is the easiest but you had to have installed you blog through Fantastico which is a software installer available with many hosting accounts. All you have to do is go to the Fantastico page on your cpanel and hit upgrade and it does the whole thing for you.
If you transferred your blog or installed it yourself without the use of Fantastico, there is a easy to use plugin for WordPress that does the upgrading for you. This plugin is called WordPress Automatic Upgrade and it is easy to use and saves you the possibility of messing something up. I use it on this blog and it has worked great for the last two updates.
Of course, you can also do it manually and the instrutions are located here. This is not hard but I prefer the easy methods I described above. Upgrades can be a pain but they did fix a lot of bugs so I highly recommend you upgrade whenever a new version comes out. Please feel free to share any new features you discovered with the update by leaving a comment here.
Ive only recently installed Wordpress to learn the basics of having a blog or a simple CMS website after hearing so much about it. Ive always been told how good and flexible it is - and i wasn’t disappointed - Im pretty sure that i wont notice any new features yet, but it’s nice to know that they’ve ironed out some of the bug. Thanks for the info on upgrading, i may install 2.6 this weekend =)
Regards.