WordPress 2.5 features a new media (including image, video and file) uploader that built on Adobe Flash technology which supports multiple files uploading to the gallery at one time and upload progress indicator bar. Unfortunately, the media uploader has numerous bugs and problems, which basically make the Flash uploader not working, or not successfully uploading the files.

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WordPress 2.5 uses a new Adobe Flash based Image and Media Uploader which supports ability to upload multiple files at one go with upload progress bar. However, a lot of bloggers and users encounter problems when using this new “Add Media” wizard dialog.

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WordPress has added a new function named shortcode with API that WordPress developers and programmers to write plugins that create macro codes for use in post content beginning from WordPress version 2.5. Essentially shortcode is an easy-to-use feature where bloggers just need to insert a bracket-delineated strings that can be magically expanded at runtime to reflect actual dynamic contents., without the need to deal with complex HTML and embed codes.

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Sometimes, bloggers or webmasters may want to display and show contents from other blogs, and the most easy way to do so is by fetching and importing the RSS feed from external sites and display the RSS feed items on own WordPress blog. Doing so will introduce readers to related external contents, or promote other relevant sites. There are plenty of ways or methods to fetch and display the feed items or contents, or aggregate the Atom or RSS feeed, either by using plugins, external services or using PHP scripts.

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The latest version of WordPress 2.5 has been officially released for free download, after 2 release candidates and several delays in schedule. However, the wait is worth waiting for, as WordPress 2.5 features lots of improvements and enhancements such as multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

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Have interesting feed (RSS or Atom) that want to share with website or blog readers? (Subscribe to Tip and Trick feed) It’s possible to display and show feed contents on another website or blog to encourage readers to visit origin blog or site, and thus boosting both traffic. Showcasing contents from another blog by displaying its feed also useful for bloggers who have multiple blogs that want to cross-reference between each other to increase traffic, or want to combine several feeds to show in one portal or post.

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After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 RC2, some WordPress iinstallation will return completely blank web page or all blog posts, pages and even wp-admin administrator dashboard and other administrative panel. Or the following error will be displayed (the error message will also be logged and captured in Apache error_log).

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Despite saying that WordPress 2.5 is basically done and stable when introducing WordPress 2.5 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) as sneak peek, there are still must fix bugs that must be ironed out, and thus the final RTM version of WordPress 2.5 continue to delay, although it’s already behind schedule.

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Each web pages on Internet will normally has a title that is displayed on the top of all web browsers, and become description or title for the tab on tabbed-browsing support browsers such as Firefox and IE7 or IE8, and also as descriptive text when the browser window is minimized to taskbar. The webpage title is also important for SEO, acronym for search engine optimization, which intends to promote and improve the ranking of the page and site on search engines.

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