A lot of the sites I’ve built for clients are based on WordPress, which in my opinion, is one of the better content management platforms available.

Nearly 220 contributors worked for more than six months to ready this latest major milestone, and it’s got plenty of good stuff to make the upgrade worthwhile.

Not familiar with WordPress? Well, odds are that you’re familiar with some of the sites that use it, such as CNN, Yahoo, Martha Stewart, Forbes, Network Solutions, and more.

Nearly every WordPress site I’ve developed and deployed for clients has included custom themes and plugins that made me a little nervous about using the “upgrade automatically” feature in WordPress.

I cautiously made backups of the sites, and their corresponding databases, and went-about it.

Amazingly, after having upgraded eight sites this morning, not one glitch – Nothing! Every custom theme and plugin works like it always has, and all that was left was to master the new features.

Great job to all the folks who worked on WordPress 3.0. If only all major software updates could be this smooth.

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