Each version of WordPress is tested before it’s release to the public. That is what the Beta releases are for as well as the Release Candidates. WordPress 2.9 went through one release candidate version and two beta releases. In fact, before RC1 hit the public, all of the tickets assigned for that version were closed. Each version was tested by anyone who volunteered. There seems to be this notion that there are thousands of WordPress Developers and they should iron out every bug before releasing software to the public. While there are hundreds of WordPress developers submitting patches here and there as well as squashing bugs, not every hosting setup can be tested. This is where the end users come in.

A patch can be found here which is already a part of 2.9.1.

According to Dion Hulse, a long time contributor to the WordPress Project:

“WordPress 2.9 was just released, And several users have run into a bug. Surprising? Not really. There’s one simple reason for this, While thousands of people Test each and every WordPress release, These users are not You.“

Since its inception, Microsoft has been known for their chargeable products and has never launched a FREE product or supported them. IT seems they do not believe in the word FREE or they do not want to contribute anything to COMMUNITY.

But we will find it strange if a CAT is supporting a MOUSE. Surprised? Yes, Microsoft has recently announced that one of their recently launched products called Windows Azure^TM will Host WordPress Blogs. They have also announced that the users of Microsoft Office System will now be able to use the newest version of Microsoft Office (Office 2010) as a Blogging Tool using World’s most powerful yet easy to use Blogging Engine called WordPress. Though Office 2010 seems to be supporting several other Blogging Tools like Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Type Pad, SharePoint blog, none other than WordPress is FREE to Download, Modify, Sell or Distribute.

If you look from the Business Perspective, Microsoft seems to be trying to enter into the FREE COMMUNITY WORLD by delivering small patches to the community, still keeping their reputation intact of a company selling all of their products/services for money.

As described by Microsoft on their Windows Azure^TM website, they will now support popular standard protocols including PHP. Please see below four lines from Microsoft.

“Windows Azure is an open platform that supports Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft® Visual Studio® expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.”

It seems that Microsoft might still act as an Industry leader of Operating Systems, Office Systems, and Database Systems, being an invisible part of an Open Source COMMUNITY.

Being one of the WordPress Services Providers, we are more than happy to hear that Microsoft is actually now supporting FREE products such as WordPress. IT will now be easy for the WordPress Services Providers to easily work on the services like WordPress Theme Designing, WordPress Customization, and WordPress Development.

Author: Nick

Nick is a professional web developer cum designer having vast experience in WordPress Services like WordPress Customization, WordPress eCommerce (Shopping Cart), and WordPress Article Writing.

Here we want to introduce a blog engine which is most powerful and easiest to manage the content you want to publish. WordPress installation is very easy and takes only 3 minutes to install and configure. WordPress, a multi tasking Blog engine has very nice, clean, catch and appealing content management section. A feature rich HTML (YSIWYG) editor helps you format the content for your web pages.  WordPress has a Media Management section where you can manage your Images, Videos, and Files easily to use within or outside your Blog. Also it has a Links section where you can publish your other websites or related websites to your Blog on any of your Blog page.

A page management section makes it possible for you to publish the information pages with formatted text, images, videos and almost every type of content you think of publishing within pages. WordPress is a true Web 2.0 Blog Engine and helps people to post comments on their blog. WordPress has a modular development methodology and is easily configurable with widgets management feature.

A huge WordPress community of 6706 Plug-in, 995 Templates (Theme Design), and 2842 Ideas helps you Setup and Manage your blog website easily. To start with you can find thousands of WordPress Themes for free just like any other Open Source product available on the internet. It has got trouble-free user management section where you can manage all your registered users at one place. An easy Import-Export feature is available to speed up the work. And last but not least, if you want to upgrade your WordPress website to a newer version, just click one button and there you are with a new version of it. Now WordPress is also available as a one click installation in mostly all Hosting Provider who uses Fantastico like application management software.

Creating new Design and editing the same in WordPress is easy with the inbuilt template editor. Alongside WordPress Customization is as easy as writing about self.

Above all, WordPress is all FREE and can be used as multiple types of websites like Blog, Content Management System, eCommerce Website and more.

Author: Nick

Nick is a professional web developer cum designer having vast experience in WordPress Services like WordPress Customization, WordPress Plug-in Development, and WordPress Article Writing.