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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.

‘WordPress hosting’ is a phrase that sometimes confuses beginners and that is because there’s more than one way of hosting a WordPress blog.

The very simplest, entry-level version of WordPress hosting is to register an account with WordPress.com and simply get a free blog. That’s all there is to it: the blog is hosted on WordPress’s own computers and you don’t have to pay anything for the privilege.

But this version won’t be suitable for businesses or for anyone who wants to make money from their blog. That’s because WordPress doesn’t like you to use their free service for financial gain. They can even close your blog down if you violate their terms of service.

So, if you’re in it for the money, you need to arrange your own, independent WordPress hosting and register your blog not with wordpress.com but with wordpress.org.

I will be explaining how to do this in my next tutorial which will be aimed at the more advanced users of WordPress.

In the meantime, if you’ve landed on this page because you’re looking for reliable WordPress hosting right now, check out Bluehost WordPress Hosting. This is where this blog is hosted and I can thoroughly recommend them.