Upgraded my blog software to latest version of WordPress a few days ago. All the plugins worked fine and the upgrade is as smooth as it can be. However, I noticed that the visual editor for blog posts started behaving weird. None of the icons would appear and most of the additional functionality is lost. Suspecting upgrade glitches, I installed a fresh instance of wordpress on a unpublished URL and even that installation suffered the same issue.  There is a long thread on the topic at wordpress. Hope I can get this fixed soon. For now, I am a HTML specialist again ;-).

WordPress released its latest version, 3.1, a few hours ago. Read more about this release here. Looking forward to upgrade my blog over the weekend.

I need to give a facelift to a few personal sites. So I tried out these content management systems for a couple of hours.

• WordPress
• Joomla!
• CMS Made Simple

Each one seems to be good in their own ways, but WordPress is definitely the simplest and easiest publishing platform.

My criteria is very simple: I need an opensource publishing platform that shouldn’t take lot of writing time, website resources and learning time to publish. Initial setup time of a few hours is acceptable. All three of these seem to be good based on that criteria.

Upgraded my blog to the latest version of WordPress. I had some nervous moments because of the fact that I upgraded from a 2.0.x version to 3.0.x version after a long time. But the upgrade process turned out to be very simple and straight forward. Thanks again, WordPress!