WordPress 2.5 has been out for a few days now and, at the suggestion of some co-bloggers on other sites, I had tried to upgrade my main blog to the latest and most-hyped version of the blogging software. However, after several hours of messing around with the upgrade, re-formatting old posts, updating current plugins, dealing

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WordPress developer Dougal Campbell recently wrote an article warning us to “upgrade or be hacked”, and then went on to say that if our plugins or other additions to WordPress no longer functioned we should “get over it” because security is more important than functionality. To really rub salt in the wound, Mr. Campbell informs

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While I've generally been happy with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, I've come across a bit of a 'gotcha' that I'm going to offer up as a blogging tip.

Evidently the FireStats plug-in plays rough with the 2.5 interface, so far as to cause it to 'half-crash' (stop working properly, but not completely) and makes it pret

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