We use WordPress on almost all of our company blogs.  Along with those, we setup and customize WordPress blogs for many of our clients.  Over the years WordPress has done a good job creating a quality blogging/content management system.  Yesterday version 2.8 was released which improves upon 2.7.  This morning I was able to successfully upgrade our blogs without a hitch.

New features include easier searching and installation of themes.  It also gives a better user interface for organizing widgets all within a single screen.  WordPress also claims the platform is faster and fixes over 790 bugs.  Also new to 2.8 is the ability to customize the UI which builds upon the changes in version 2.7.  View the video below to review some of the new features in the updated system.

I decided to use WordPress for the Brandon Quintana Consulting blog.  I had skinned quite a few for clients over the years and the old WordPress software just didn’t have all the features I wanted in a blog.  In fact back when I started blogging no one really had all the features I wanted.  Blogging was relatively new and everyone was still trying to see what worked and what didn’t.  This left me to create my own blogging software platform which I’ve used on many sites for a number of years now.

Well as time went on and the company got larger and larger, blogging was evolving and I had a hard time keeping up with it.  With all the client work load, I had little time to update the software with new features or fix any of the bugs that I had come across.
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