It has been a while since the latest versions (2.5 and now 2.5.1) of WordPress were released. But did you upgrade your version yet? While installation of WordPress is on of the easiest out there. But after you begin toying around with your website, adding new plugins and maybe modifying some parts of your template, upgrading to the new version is not always an attractive idea. You don’t know whether or not your theme will work with the latest version, nor there is certainty your plugins will continue to work. So many of us make a painful decisions to hang on to outdated versions as long as we can. So today I would like to outline some benefits of why you should consider to keep your WordPress up to date. While this article is written in the light of the latest version (2.5.1) of WordPress, some of the points may still apply to no matter what version your are hanging onto.

1. Security Fixes. Generally WordPress updates patches the wholes as far a security of your website is concerned. If you don’t want to do it for yourself, you should consider your regular readers and visitors.
2. General Improvements. Since powering this blog by WordPress almost with every major upgrade, there was an improvement in WordPress functionatily.
3. WordPress 2.5.1 makes it easy to upgrade your plugins. So much so that you can perform them with just a single click without need of downloading and uploading the newest versions of plugins you use on your blog.



4. Media Files. WordPress 2.5.1 hd improved dramatically how you upload and manage your media files: pictures, video files and audio files.



5. WordPress 2.5.1 had dramatically improve the “behavior” of WYSIWYG editor, in a way that it is not screwing up your code ans it did in previous versions. For example if you needed to embed a video from YouTube, you had to turn the WYSIWYG editor off in your profile setting while working on the post containing the video. Now you it is enough to just switch to HTML editor right in post editing window.

While all these improvements are great, there are still plenty of challenges users of WordPress are faced with. Particularly if you have never upgraded your WordPress before or need to do it by uploading your own files via FTP protocol. While many web hosting providers offer Fatastico script to install and upgrade your word press, the only how that is keeping up with providing the latest upgrade via Fantastico is Lunarpages. Other web hosts seam to be a little behind on keeping up with the latest versions of scripts available through Fantastico. Of course few hosts, Bluehost, Hostmonster and Fastdomain, have implemented SimpleScripts, allowing users to upgrade to the newest version of WordPress within hours of the release of upgrades.

If you have never upgraded your WordPress before, there is a good resource just for that for that on WordPress.org.

Since announcing new rating system following web hosting providers where reviewed by the visitors to this blog: Lunarpages, Omins and Aplollo Web Hosting. The total of six visitors have reviewed these web hosting providers, so I would like say thank you to every one of them:

Mark Taslimi of Esh.net
Lonnie of China on TV
Jeff Miller of Closing Videos
Mimi Sidwell of Jxranch.com
Chris Atkins of Linguesmex.com
Dawna Avery of Visual Testaments

Your feedback is what makes this website of mine great. There is very little value in what I provide on this website, which just basic information about web hosting providers. Your reviews and feedback is far more valuable. So I thank you for taking time and reviewing your web hosts and wish you much success in your respective businesses.

If you would like to to be thanked in the similar way all you need to do is to review your web hosting provider, if of course it is featured on this website. If your web host is not on your list, I will be happy to add it to the list. If you have previously reviewed your web hosting provider on this website, feel free to review it again as things may have changed. It may be that your had a poor impression of your web host initially, yet over the time they have improved their services. Or it may be all around.

To be featured in one of “thank you” posts, your review should contain more than just “I love this provider” or “This provider sucks”. While both positive and negative reviews are welcomed here, I will look suspiciously at shallow comments made just in attempt to gain a link to your website.

Thanks again to the most recent reviewers!

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