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 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.

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.