It has been announced that Wordpress 2.3 will be released on September 24th
.  With the current availability of Beta 2 (at the time of writing this post) you should be aware that the code is still “rough” and you should be confident and comfortable with web technologies if you are willing to try it out.

That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.

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I’m sure most of you are aware of the social networking and the web 2 concept storming the internet at the moment. Luckily, there is an excellent plugin available which will allow you to select social networking websites from within a control panel, which will then be appended to your post content automatically for users to submit them to a social network.

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As many of you are aware, the Internet is now bloated with companies offering free phpBB forum hosting. But why? The answer is simple - to make money. For many webmasters, the Internet has one purpose - to generate revenue. This is perfectly understandable as this can be some persons main and even only job. The idea of this article is to make you aware of free phpBB forum hosting, what you should look for in a host and why free forum hosting is not really a bad thing at all. I used to think that free phpBB forum hosts are unreliable, feature limited and unstable. Whilst the feature limited part is to some extent true, many efficient phpBB forum hosts extend their functionality which makes up for the lack of features to begin with.

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I have been visiting the area51 phpBB forum for some time now, and in particular, I have been visiting the “Suspecting RC1 Soon…” thread. First time I saw that thread was a few pages in and the quoted date of the first post was January 6 2007. Whilst I knew it was unrealistic that a Release Candidate was going to be released before another BETA I still kept reading the topic just to see what, if any Olympus developers would comment back. It was confirmed by dhn that infact that beta 5 would be next. Once Sun Jan 28 was hit (the date of Beta5 was released) I started visiting more and more because of the excitement that a Release Candidate would bring. At this point, it could have been seen that a Release Candidate was coming - and fast. But we were wrong as here we are on 17 May 2007 still with beta 5.

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You might have noticed that the blog was down for some time today. This was because I was in the procedure of updating the blog to Wordpress 2.2. A quote from the software vendor, Wordpress is shown below:

This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

I would just like to point out a few things that excite me about this version.

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