WordPress version 2.5 has received a lot of press around the blogosphere, not always very positive.
However, I’ve just upgraded this blog to 2.5 and it seems to have gone very smoothly. All my posts and pages survived and I have successfully reactivated all my plugins. So far so good.
As you can see, I’ve made the start of this post red(!) which is one of the new features in the Visual tab. But another welcome addition is the ability to add media files.
You can now easily add video, audio and other media to your posts and pages. And your videos don’t have to be played via Youtube (although you can if you want) - you can upload a video to WordPress and embed it into a post or page. I’ve played around with this and it works fine.
Dear Sarah
I am a newbie.
How do i upgrade to wordpress 2.5
and what are the details of the video tutorials and where can i download
Thans
Hi there.
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 can be tricky if you are a newbie but you can find full instructions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
My video tutorial ‘WordPress In 1 Day’ is still in course of preparation and will be available soon. This will cover WordPress 2.5 in full.
If you are on my mailing list I will let you know when it’s ready. Otherwise, check back here in a week or so for more news.
Thanks for your interest,
Sarah