The new version of wordpress (2.2) has been out for over a week now and I’ve upgraded one blog with no problem. I will likely upgrade this one soon when I have the time…maybe today…maybe next month, whenever!

This newest version of wordpress has added goodies that includes widgets (see it in action here), full atom support, blogger importer, infinite comment stream, speed optimizations, WYSIWYG support (for future version of Safari - which is great because Safari is my favority browser even though some sites don’t work well on it) AND the best thing is that this new version will protect you from activating any plugin or editing a file that may mess up your blog.

The plugin protection is great since I hate having to reinstall the whole site even though you have backups. 5 minutes of time spent on fixing a messed up blog is 5 minutes of precious time wasted.

If you’ve checked out the way the widget works from n.design and actually like to use it, you can stop by the wp-themes section and download it!

There are lots of social bookmarking site out there and the more you allow your users to add your post to one of them, the more chances of receiving more audience. If you run a wordpress blog, having the ability for users to add your post to one of their social bookmarking sites with just a click will be very useful.

Sociable is a plugin for Wordpress from Peter Harkins of push.cx. It has a big list of built in social bookmark site (including digg, reddit, del.icio.us, furl and lots more) and all you have to do is put it in your plugin folder, activate it, then select the social bookmark sites you want to display. It’s as easy as that.

BTW - I also like his tagline “A tea-drinking web geek’s coffee-flavored blog” for his site!