Anticipating WordPress 2.5

Posted on 2008.03.16
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The WordPress Planet has been posting recently about a silently-delayed release of WordPress 2.5, a huge step up from WordPress 2.3.3. It was supposed to have been released March 10, 2008. It is now March 16, 2008.

Similar to the hype with the long-awaited release of Joomla! 1.5 Stable, people all around the world are anticipating WordPress 2.5, which is said to have a much nicer admin backend, a changed plugins system, and dozens of other features.

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The difference between waiting for Joomla! 1.5 Stable and waiting for WordPress 2.5 is that WordPress is used by a huge number of active bloggers around the world. It is said that tens of millions of people read blogs powered by WordPress every day; this is no overestimate. Whether it’s an average Joe blogging about his life, or Yahoo! talking about their latest developments, or even eBay, WordPress is suitable for everyone.

Joomla! is a CMS, and large corporations build their own CMS’s. But WordPress was intended to be a blogging / content platform, and it has been used as that (and many more things) because it’s simply easy to use.

I await WordPress 2.5 as eagerly as anyone else. Sure, the new source code can be obtained via SVN, or the nightly builds, but I’ll wait until the stable.

Get WordPress for your own site, or create a free WordPress blog at PersonalLog.

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adam
Comment on March 18th, 2008.

Will Wordpress 2.5 be provided on your personallog.org service (stable I’m guessing)?

Comment on March 18th, 2008.

@adam: PersonalLog doesn’t use the main WordPress project, it uses an official multi-user, multi-blog edition called WordPress MU.

The updates to WordPress 2.5 will be reflected in the next release of WordPress MU, so you’ll have those benefits soon.

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