If you are having any problems with your 2.5 installation or are just generally confused about where certain things are now, this post at Weblog Tools Collection has a very comprehensive list of helpful answers and fixes to problems.

Update: More FAQs.

April 2, 2008 | Comments

WordPress 2.5 has been released!

March 29, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

WordPress 2.5 is finally out today. From the Dev Blog:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. 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.

Read the rest at Wordpress.org’s newly redesigned website!

Go download the new release and upgrade your site today.

Want to know more? Need some help? Here are some links from around the internet with really helpful articles about what to expect from the newest version of WP as well as how to get ready to upgrade your blog:

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Posted by Emily @ 12:43 pm

Notice to Swank Web Hosting Customers

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: News

*UPDATE* - The server has been upgraded and optimized this weekend for better performance. It’s currently being monitored very closer should any other issues pop up. Also, we have verified that the WordPress comment notification problem has been fixed and notifications are now being received.

We want to let you know that the server transfer is complete. We apologize for any issues you have been experiencing in the past few days. We are working on stabilizing the server right now. It was better today than yesterday and it should only improve from now on. This transfer has been bumpier than we anticipated and we truly apologize for this. We are working 24/7 to get things back to normal.

As for other issues that have been reported, we have fixed most everything. The only open issue right now is people not receiving comment notifications from WordPress blogs. We are working to fix this.

Due to the transfer some permissions have changed. This can cause issues with uploading, editing themes or certain plugins (like the Image Headlines plugin). This is a very easy fix. You just need to change the permissions on your uploads folder (and any sub folders) and image-headlines folder to 777. To edit theme files, change the permissions to 666. If you don’t know how to do this , please contact us at hosting@swankwebhosting.com or submit a helpdesk ticket. We will fix this for you ASAP.

If you have lost any posts or comments we are sorry about this. The transfer wound up taking longer than anticipated due to holiday weekend. However, these are easily retrievable by subscribing to your feeds (yourdomain.com/feed and yourdomain.com/comments/feed). We’re sorry for the inconvenience, it’s not something that will happen again. Since the transfer has been complete since yesterday, there should be no more issues as far as posting entries/comments.

Please contact us at hosting@swankwebhosting.com or submit a helpdesk ticket if you notice any other problems with your site.

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Posted by Emily @ 6:49 pm

Web 101: Full vs Partial Feeds

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Web 101

Over at the Blog Herald, there’s a great article on why people shouldn’t be using partial feeds. The author makes a lot of good points, essentially boiling it down to the fact that there are no benefits to using a partial feed. It doesn’t deter sploggers from stealing your content and it doesn’t bring extra traffic to your site; you are basically just frustrating your regular readers and alienating new ones. Read the full article for more.

What I find funny is his rationalizing of why it’s okay for some blogs (*ahem* the one he’s writing on) to use partial feeds. The only instance in which I think it’s okay to offer a partial feed is if you offer a full feed as well. I have seen several blogs that offered a full feed with ads and a partial feed without ads. I have no problem with that, it even kind of makes sense. Although, I can’t imagine there are an overwhelming number of people that hate ads so much they would put up with the frustration of a partial feed. But different strokes, right?

You should respect your readers enough to let them choose how they want to view your site. Offering just a partial feed takes that choice away and more often than not, they won’t bother reading at all.

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Posted by Emily @ 4:12 pm