Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

One of the new features that will be available in WordPress 2.7 is the ability to automatically disable comments on a post that is older than a certain number of days. This will be a huge feature since most folks just leave comments open indefinitely and they end up filled with spam links and other [...]

WordPress has released Beta 2 of their upcoming 2.7 release. They have a big list of bug fixes that have been pushed out with this version.
If you have already installed Beta 1, you can easily update to Beta 2 using the Tools > Update panel in the admin area.
I have really been impressed with the [...]

I am running through the WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 and everything looks great so far. I logged in to my Dreamhost
control panel and created a new subdomain for the site, wpbeta.jeremyfilnt.com. Then I created a new SQL database so that the installation was completely self contained.
I still had the problem of needing data in [...]

The folks over at WordPress have released WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 for people to install and test. I am going to have a 2.7 sandbox set up and keep it updated as new releases come out. This will be a significant release of WordPress, espeically with the complete overhaul of the admin UI. The new [...]

WordPress is great software - well written, easy to use, and easy to install. As with any software, issues arise that call for an upgrade. Whether for security reasons or simple bug fixes, it is important to keep your WordPress intsallation updated with the latest and greatest.
There are several methods for upgrading your WordPress installation: [...]