If you’ve blogged for a while, sliding over to the announcement page for WordPress 2.5 will bring a smile to your face.
WordPress has been a really strong app all along, but the stuff in 2.5 is just perfect for the short list of “Man, I sure wish WordPress did ….”
For me, the big ticket items in WordPress 2.5 are:
- Easier ( in most cases – 1 click ) plugin upgrades.
- A much better WYSIWYG post editor that doesn’t chomp on your HTML code.
- Built-in photo galleries (goes to WordPress big cheese Matt Mullenweg’s galleries) which includes EXIF extraction and a vastly better upload tool.
- Full-screen editing for the wordy among us:)
I’ll be moving to 2.5 here at Business is Personal as part of a refurb that’s I’ve been working on sporadically. I spent too many years in the software business to just upload it and employ the strategy of hope on an existing site that I can’t afford to have down for a week. Since I use WP as a content management system (CMS), I’m testing 2.5 for some new sites, so as I find interesting discoveries, I’ll note them here.
Why do I mention this?
Because small business owners should be blogging and your blog should be on your small business’ website – NOT at the group blog hosting sites WordPress.com or Blogger.com, etc. Positioning, positioning, positioning.