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After hours of testing on an offline version of my blog, I have finally decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5. As I expected, there were no compatibility issues encountered with the theme just like on the test blog.

More than 90% of the plugins worked perfectly after the upgrade and only the AdSense Manager and Live plugins have issues with this new version of Wordpress. Hopefully, an update will fix these issues.

So far, I’m pretty impressed with this new version. Overall, I like the fresh new look and feel of the Dashboard. Colors are cool to the eyes and navigation is much better compared to the previous version. I’m also happy with the one click plugin feature, it just makes maintaining your plugins up-to-date easier and almost hassle free.

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After some delays, Automattic has finally released Wordpress 2.5 and is now available for download. The 2.5 branch is nicknamed “Brecker” in honor of Michael Brecker, an exceptionally talented saxophonist.

For a short overview of features with some screenshots, I suggest visiting the RC1 announcement. Or check the screencast of the new Wordpress interface in action. If you want to upgrade and go straight with the good stuff, I suggest checking your theme and plugins first to make sure that you won’t encounter some compatibility issues.

The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

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One of the things you need to consider to blog effectively is Technorati. Specifically, you need to know how to make it work to your advantage especially if you have plans on monetizing your blog.

At first, I was confused on how the system works and my ranking was stuck for months. Now its slowly going down (the lower the number is better) and I hope the trend will continue.

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Okay, so I got tagged by Residual Matters and decided to join the viral frenzy.

I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes let’s hope a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!

The benefits of Viral Linking:

1. One of the fastest ways to see your Technorati Authority explode!

2. Increase your Google PageRank fast

3. Attract large volume of new traffic to your site

4. Build your community

5. Make new friends!

And these are the people who already took part on this tag:
Blognation, Pinoytek, Reyna, Bluep, Kotsengkuba, Buraot, Iris, Banco De Reyna, Manilenya, Mitch, Melai, Malen, Beng, Sasha, Foolsville, Lloyd Lopez, Stephan Miller, Leon, R.O., Stunner, Islander, Everything and Anything,  My thoughts…on stuff, Malawi Politics, Mark Q. [next please]

I tagged these blogger who are either an Entrecard dropper, a regular visitor, a blogger I found on my Technorati page: Vance, Hulag, Pao, Jamaipanese and Pixelated Thoughts.

Not in the list? If you wish to join, you can leave your message below and just do the job then leave a comment here! I’ll give you some link lovin .

Just a few hours ago, Automattic released WordPress 2.3.3 which fixes the flaw found in the XML-RPC implementation of WordPress which would allow a valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.

A recommended update for your WordPress powered blog and I suggest you do so. I saw a couple of blogs being exploited because of an outdated WP engine. We don’t want to have someone exploit the bugs on your own blog, do we now?

With version 2.3.3, it also includes some few minor bugs that can be found here. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy over your existing xmlrpc.php.

Download: WordPress 2.3.3

If you haven’t notice yet, my blog is now sporting a new look since last week. After a couple of days of customizing the CSS and PHP scripts, I finally decided to launch the new theme. My blog is now back with the blue and white look which is quite similar to the theme I use last year. Unfortunately, I had to change that theme last 3 (or 4?) months ago because of some incompatibility issues after upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.

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Two weeks ago, I attended the baptismal ceremony of Erwin’s daughter, Faith. One of the guests there was Exx, a friend from my previous work and currently working for Paypal. He told me that Paypal was working on the option for a local bank withdrawal albeit, he didn’t provide any specific dates but he did mention that it will be “soon”. At the back of my head, I was thinking that Paypal will take a few more months before they will make this option available to their clients until I saw this…

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