We finally got around to upgrading the site to Wordpress 2.5. We’ve been very bad this time around this time by waiting almost three weeks before upgrading our Wordpress 2.3 site to newer and more secure versions. Luckily, we’re in a “holding pattern” for adding a whole lot of content to this blog, because Technorati (a blog indexing service) decided to remove insecure Wordpress sitesкомпютри втора употреба from their index. If you’re a Wordpress user, you really should check and make sure your blog is updated with the latest stable release of Wordpress.

Wordpress 2.5 contains a lot of new features…and mostly on the publisher/author/administrative side of the blog. So far, my most favorite new feature is the almost automatic plug-in upgrades.

Few-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host setup, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.

We’ll talk more about Wordpress 2.5 once I get to know about it more. Expect an article on Wordpress to be posted either here or at CMSReport.com.

As you know, we are big fans of the blogging application, Wordpress. Like that Idea is now running on Wordpress 2.0.6. Not only some security and bug fixes are included in this release but also some minor new features.New to this version of Wordpress:

• Security fixes.
• HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
• Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
• Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

You can find more information about Wordpress at Wordpress.org, of course! Also, you can check out Bryan’s own CMS Report for more content and links to articles on Wordpress.

Information Week has an interesting article about those involved in such online ventures as digg, del.icio.us, Zoot, and Six Apart’s Movable Type. Basically, the article discusses how people have made their money off of blogging or providing the blog-like software and services.

Most people who pull down a paycheck dream of making a living at their hobby. For IT managers, the dream is more within reach than it is for most professionals, as their technical skills can give them a head start in building businesses on the Web. A supertalented few have even made fortunes.

How do they do it? We went straight to the sources, interviewing tech pros who turned their cyberhobbies into full-time jobs. Many of them truly were accidental entrepreneurs; others at least had an inkling they could make a go of it. All were helped along by a business-fertile Internet environment, their raw ambition, supportive spouses, and a little luck. They haven’t all become rich, but they’re all making a living at what they used to do for fun. Click Here for rest of article.

I enjoyed the article and I think most of CMS Report’s vistitors will also find the artcile interesting. However, I have one point to make. Success is not an accident. While these people may be very lucky to have a “job” doing something they love, accidents just don’t happen. It takes a lot of hard work, sweat, risk, and dedication to become successful in IT. Sure there are exceptions…but I think most of those interviewed in the article wouldn’t really consider their success to be found only by accident.

Note: This post has been “recycled” from Bryan’s other site, CMS Report. You can read that post by clicking here.