WordPress Blog

- New admin panel since Wordpress 2.5 is more visually appealing with a light blue color but I am a little bias here since that color is almost the same as my web site’s
- The visual editor has media section with icons to add “image”, “video”, “audio” or any other “media”.

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The WordPress Featured Video Plugin is a very useful and powerful feature to add in your wordpress blog.
* It  reads and displays a video in your wordpress blog post.
* All you need is tag the video HTML code as follows:
[youtube:url to your video] (e.g. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE]) or taggged [googlevideo:url] (e.g. [googlevideo:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=8577255250907450469])

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Upgrading your Wordpress blog to the latest version (2.5.1 at the time of this posting) is usually a breeze:

1. make a backup copy of your blog database should something unexpected happen.
2. download the zip folder containing the latest version of wordpress (i.e wordpress 2.5.1) from http://wordpress.org/
3. extract the content of that folder somewhere in your computer
4. use an FTP program or Dreamweaver to upload all the newly downloaded wordpress files except the wp-content ( and whatever is inside the wp-content folder)
5. execute the upgrade program by entering http://www.your-blog-address/wp-admin/upgrade.php in your web browser’s address bar.
   http://www.your-blog-address is whatever your blog address is. For instance our blog web site address is http://www.saheltech.com/blog
6. follow the step-by-step instructions displayed on your screen.

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