Midas Oracle is now powered by WordPress 2.5 —and you should be too.

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1. Just updated to WordPress 2.5. (See a screencast here.)
2. I waited one week before upgrading, so as to take the time to monitor the WP 2.5 compatibility with our plugins.
3. To upgrade, I used the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” plugin. The automatic process failed, but the step-by-step process worked fine. Overall, I’m happy. This plugin is a time saver.
4. WordPress 2.5.1 is due for May 2008. In the meantime, if you spot some gremlins, let me know.
5. Speaking of gremlins, WP 2.5 has now a better compatibility with Safari, so maybe Tom W. Bell will come down here to tell us what he thinks of the new US anti-gambling regulations.
6. The Midas Oracle post/page authors will spot a totally reconfigured “Write Post / Page” area.
7. They have added a bunch of “media buttons” (to insert pictures, sounds, videos, etc.) and an “embedded media” button (which you’ll find if you click first on the “Kitchen Sink”). I have yet to fully experiment all that.
8. There is now a “full screen mode” for the writing area.
9. They have hidden the 2 blockquotes button under the “Kitchen Sink” sub-menu.

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UPDATE: Gartner is out today saying that open-source software will take over the free world, eventually —and that includes Chapman University and Tom W. Bell…

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Matt Mullenweg

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