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Can you believe it? WordPress is 5 years old already. I was rather surprised to read that in the WordPress dashboard yesterday. I always had it younger in my mind, but then I got to thinking about when I first starting using WordPress and that was back in 2004…..I can’t believe I have been using it for 4 years on a myriad of websites.

WordPress has truly grown in the last few years and is now one of the must have web applications. It’s perfect as a blog and with just a little extending, it can be used as an awesome CMS. It’s like a jack of all trades on the net.

I wonder what’s in store for WordPress over the next 5 years?

I have a plugin that works great with WordPress and works with the newest versions as well as older versions. It does what it needs to do and does it right. There aren’t any annoying bugs in the code. It just works solid.

I often times wonder if I should just update it for no reason. See, people expect you to update your plugin from time to time. They want to you update it to fix bugs even if no bugs exist or so it seems. I am in a bit of a quandry here trying to decide what I should in fact do. How often to update it?

I have finally started work on a new project. It still is in its beginning phase so it’s not ready for public download yet, but I can’t stop gushing about it. It’s an RSS Content Generation Script for WordPress.

Basically it works by pulling in feeds from across the internet and making them into posts that can either be put inside a WordPress database or can be created as stand alone flat files. This will work alongside the new enhancements I am making to Category Magic. I know there are these type of scripts out there, but none have the simplicity that mine has.

I think that this will be a unique script and I am considering selling the script, but maybe I will just ask for donations for further development.

I just downloaded and installed the new WordPress 2.5 on my test blog and it looks like my plugins are working without any problems. Yeah! That’s enough to give a nice scream and a holler about. I think I need to do a bit more checking on them to make sure before I pronounce them 2.5 compatible, but it looks very promising.

The new backend for WordPress 2.5 sure looks good. It’s a real cosmetic change so I am sure there will be some adjustment time while I figure out where everything goes and look for any bugs, but this really looks like a leap ahead in the right direction.

Doing your own thing and going your own way can be a big trip. Face it, it can be a lot of fun hen you blaze your own trails and make your own path. Lately I have been trying to do more of it in the way of business and technology. Unfortunately, I have found that blazing new trails can be a lot of work.

Take for example, web hosting. I have started to do hosting of my own sites myself. This means that I am responsible for everything, including maintaining the server, securing the server and doing backups. It means that I need to do backups on a regular basis in order to keep things running smoothly. It’s a lot of work, but it is something I need to do.

Another example is writing plugins. Since I try to come up with something new and interesting, it means that sometimes I am coming up with entirely new ways of programming. I can’t really rely on anyone else to check and see if I am doing it right. It means I spend a lot more time doing trial and error to make sure I get things right.

That’s ok. I know both of these are improving my skills and making me more self reliant, and that’s something very good.

I have been thinking of putting together a new WordPress plugin. I have category magic and it is doing a good job. There are some some modifications I need to do with it as I have noticed a few things it could do better and more efficiently, but I really want to create a new plugin. I am looking for suggestions for a new and interesting plugin. Is there any WordPress functionality you are looking for? Anything that could be interesting to do? I was thinking about something with tags that are built into the newest WordPress version, but any ideas would be appreciated.