My free WordPress tutorial has now been updated to cover WordPress 2.7!

WordPress 2.7 has a completely different user interface from previous versions and this has meant that I’ve had to republish my tutorial ebook.

I’ve also had to temporarily remove my ‘WordPress In 1 Day’ video tutorial because it no longer matches the current WordPress interface.

I’ll be issuing a new, revised tutorial covering how to build a WordPress blog on your own domain in your own hosting account in the New Year.

If you haven’t already downloaded my free tutorial, why not head on over to http://wordpress2go.com/wordpress-tutorial and grab it now!

WordPress 2.7 is on the way and today I uploaded the beta1 version of the new release to this blog.

The upgrade went well and everything on the blog seems to behave as before. Plugins are still working, widgets are still displaying, theme is hanging together fine.

There’s a new dashboard interface which will take a bit of getting used to but an exciting new feature is the ability to have a sticky post on the front page.  This means you can have one post at the top of the page and all subsequent posts will scroll below it.

I haven’t yet explored all the new gizmos but what I do know is that I’ll have to redo my WordPress tutorial (again!) as soon as WordPress 2.7 gets released in full (sigh).

Read more about 2.7 here:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/whats-your-favorite-thing-about-the-27-beta/