There are many guides out there (one in particular I won’t dare mention) about upgrading to 2.5, but I was curious how your experience was. I’ve personally upgraded two of my blogs — one manually, and one using Keith’s awesome WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. In both cases, I ran into no issues aside from a few incompatible plugins (you did check the list, right?). To get the ball rolling, here are several links to some upgrade experiences around the web. My hope is to make this post a resource with a list of upgrade guides and experiences. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below (only one link please). Alex Frison shares with us how to upgrade 2.5 in 5 minutes. Random View shares his experience with upgrading to 2.5. Christer Edwards discusses updating, not one, but multiple blogs to WP 2.5 with no issues. Jeffro2pt0 discusses […]

iBox iBox is plugin that allows you to create overlays of images, html pages, inline layers and YouTube videos or any other flash videos. The plugin works even when there is no JavaScript support in the browser. Release Page | Download iShare Another plugin from the previous authors which allows you to easily share your content using social networking and email. Even allows you users to directly print the document or download word and PDF documents. Release Page | Download Shashin Use Shashin to embed Picasa photos and album galleries in your posts, pages, and sidebar. Includes widgets, random photos, newest photos, links to Google Maps, and more. Release Page | Download Branded Login Screen This plugin allows custom graphics for the login screen that will not be overwritten with an upgrade of WordPress. It is complatible with WP 2.3.3 & WP 2.5. Release Page | Download

[I did not write this post. It was written with great care and in great detail by MichaelH on the news section and is reproduced verbatim here. For those of you that do not know Michael’s work, his work on the Codex and his help with WordPress and its documentation makes him a legend in my books. Thank you Michael!] These questions and answers were gleaned from the wp-hackers and wp-testers e-mail lists over that last several weeks. Q. How can I find the Post ID or Page ID? A. If your browser shows the URL in the status bar, when you mouse over a link, you can see the ID in the as part of the URL displayed in the browser status bar. In FireFox you can show the status bar by checking the Status bar choice under View. A more complicated method to finding the ID is to use […]

So we had a really good time and wished that all of you were there. The presentations were all top notch and audience participation was very good. In his keynote Matt mentioned that attendees would get the most from this conference if they mingled and connected with each other as much as they paid attention to the people up on stage and I noticed a lot of mingling going on. 🙂 It was wonderful to finally meet a whole bunch of people. I have all the pictures that I took (I should have taken the D70) on my Flickr account with the agreed upon WordCampDallas2008 tag. If you have any questions, have any media from the event that you would like to share or have any questions for any of the events/presenters, please let us know. Special thanks to Charles for organizing the event and to John for being a […]

WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a refresh of most WordPress properties, including WordPress.org. Here is a link to WordPress 2.5 and the official release announcement.

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I am excited about the upcoming WordCamp Dallas. I am hoping to meet up with quite a few people and the schedule looks interesting. I am not going to make it to DFW in time for the Friday evening mixer but I will be getting together with people later on in the night. Please send me an email or Twitter me if you are interested in getting together. If you are at WordCamp Dallas over the weekend, be sure to say hi.

Content suggestion engine for WordPress: TechCrunch has an interesting article this morning on the Alpha release of a product called Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine and works with WordPress and Firefox. With nothing to install on the blog, and a simple FF extension, Zemanta creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress with suggestions on what to add to your content. This information is gathered real time from various media publication sites and blogs. I am watching the Zemanta control box as I type this post and it seems to update after regular intervals with new suggestions. It also lets you add links to various keywords on your post to other articles on the web and your blog. I just tried out some of the features including addition of pictures and related links but the soup generated is not pretty and […]