Upgrade to WordPress 2.5
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Just in case you have not upgraded to wordpress 2.5, the stable and public release is out and is quite something. As I mentioned in my previous post “WordPress 2.5-Step-by-Step upgrade Guide for Beginners“, please make sure to take a backup of your current wordpress.
As a decent upgrade tool (Just in case you don’t want to flirt with your directory structure on your FTP), you could use InstantUpgrade plugin. This plugin is in Beta, so please use it at your own risk. Also, one bug that I found with the plugin is that even when you deactivate it (even remove it from your WP Plugin Directory), it doesn’t listen and tries to associate itself with the upgrade link in WordPress Dashboard.
The second drawback (for advance user) of the plugin is that it only allows you (by default unless you mention the version) to upgrade to the latest stable release. Doesn’t automatically upgrade to the beta or nightly builds. As, I promised, I’ll do a complete review of WordPress 2.5 on my other blog.
Get your blog talking with Odiogo
If you’d notice my blog. Off late there’s a button that looks like the one below. What this sweet little button does is to make my blog podcastable. That has two fold implications. It makes my blog feeds podcastable (that means you can now subscribe to my blog’s feed in audio format, one and it also makes my blog post to be read aloud.
Sweet, isn’t it. Don’t believe me. Hit the listen button on top of this post (or any other post) and this blog would start reading the respective post. Let me tell you how I did this. First, got to Odiogo and register your site/blog with it. You’ll get an instruction to install the plugin and also instruction of how to make your feeds pod cast compatible. Let me know what you feel. I haven’t seen any major performance deterioration, so I guess I am going to keep it. If I find something that makes it not great for my blog, I’ll take it off and will write a post on the same.
I am not sure if there are other services like this. I am going to explore. But if you want to help me stay lazy, post a comment mentioning similar service.