Hey gang - just a quick update to the whole WordPress 2.5 update process. I did a guest post over at Brad Shorr’s blog Word Sell about my recent experience with the new version and how much I love it (and why). Go check it out, and tell Brad I sent you!

Oh, and if you’re HERE because you read the post over at Brad’s, thank you for stopping by!

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As you may already know, Anubis Marketing uses WordPress almost exclusively to build, maintain, and manage our site and our client’s sites. There are about a million reasons why, but the bottom line is that they have a great number of people (mostly unpaid, yet extremely highly-skilled volunteers) helping to keep WP at the top of it’s game. Thus, we get new releases of the same software, only greatly improved each time. I remember using version 1.2 (I think, maybe 1.3?) back when I first got started, and I can’t say enough how awesome I think it is.

Anyway, WordPress has a new version, with some really great new features. My friend Aaron Brazell always writes up some great stuff when this happens, and this time’s no different: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5. He covers all the changes and visual improvements in the new version, as well as the new features like 1-click plugin updating and improved widgets.

The new admin interface (dashboard):

Pretty nifty, huh?

All in all, this version’s been on the board for about 6 months, and is considered a major release. There are lots of changes and “upgrades” and is something we can’t wait to implement on our client sites. However, that being said, we never do the upgrades until we’ve had a chance to play with it ourselves, so it’s going to take a little time to get all the upgrades completed. If you’re one of our clients, you’ll receive an advance notice email with a scheduled date and time of your site’s upgrade.

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