Upgrading to WordPress 2.6 improves your blog usability

ByRamon Thomas

Wordpress Content Management ServiceA reminder to the blogging community to upgrade to WordPress 2.6, which was released 3 days ago. Today I upgraded 26 WordPress-based websites or rather blogs that I am hosting at Hostgator. It has been years since I bothered hosting websites inside South Africa. And the Fantastico script manager allows you to seamlessly install open source web applications like WordPress, Joomla or Moodle.

The biggest compliment I have for the WordPress theme is how it continues to make it easier and easier for non-technical people to become masters of their own domains – no pun intended. You can read the official announcement on the WordPress blog here.

 

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