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WordPress is planning to release a new version of their software, version 2.7, sometime on or around November 10th, 2008.

As you may know, WordPress developers have been working behind the scenes on the design and development of version 2.7 of the WordPress software that powers your blog. The administration interface you're used to will be changing as a result of your feedback and the results of the usability testing we conducted over the summer. It looks absolutely great!

Version 2.7 is due to release officially on November 10.

I strongly recommend upgrading your WordPress to take advantage of the new dashboard as well as all the bells and whistles that come with it.

If you need some help upgrading your WordPress 2.7 please feel free to contact our blog services team.

I just wanted to announce our newly redesigned website - ResidenceDot.com where we offer blog services for real estate agents and brokers.

The company is offering Realtor blog services to Realtors without a blog, as well as agents and brokers that already have a blog and might need some help customizing or redesigning one.

Blogs Explained section really demonstrates how important having a blog is, especially for real estate agents / brokers.

Check it out, and happy blogging!

For those who don't know, the 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

BlogWorld features the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about, then you need to be at the most comprehensive blogging convention--BlogWorld & New Media Expo.

Six Apart (MovableType.com) will have a booth there, and so are some of our customers I work directly with. Looking forward to seeing you all there and talking about blog services.

Happy blogging.

Movable Type 4.2 has been released and is available for download. It now includes the Community Pack as a built-in feature of MT, without any additional charges!

We've tested version 4.2 internally and found it so much faster out of the box than the previous 4.12 version. Just by uploading the new files you will see great speed performance.

Search was completely rewritten, with common queries being 100 times as fast. Core publishing is 2 to 3 times as fast out of the box, and if you enable template module caching or automatic use of includes, we've heard results of 10x as fast or more.

One of our corporate customers running version 4.12 had to wait roughly 4 hours for their blog to rebuild. As soon as they upgraded to the 4.2, the upgrade took only 9 minutes. That is unbelievable speed.

We've also seen some issues when upgrading from 4.12 to 4.2 where a blog will not rebuild unless some changes are made to the blog's custom designed templates, and/or plugins.

As always, I recommend creating a backup copy of your current Movable Type blog before upgrading. Businesses and Corporate users are recommended to create a development environment with a mirror copy of their current blog, and test the upgrade there, before upgrading their live blogs and then facing problems.

Feel free to check our blog services page for help with Movable Type 4.2 Upgrade.

Based on our sources at Six Apart, Movable Type 4.2 will be released very shortly. The wait is almost done, dear bloggers. Watch our announcements page for the release news, download location, and of course installation and upgrade instructions. If you get stuck you can always check our blog services for assistance.

Just to remind everyone, by upgrading to Movable Type 4.2 your blog will work approximately 30% faster, so it is totally worth it. If you are upgrading from Movable Type 3.x then I recommend checking our blog post describing issues you might run into, and the steps you can take to avoid them.

Happy blogging!