If you are considering starting your own blog, WordPress is excellent software with which to do it. Installation is trivial. Once installed, WordPress pretty much gets out of your way and simply allows you to write. The software handles the grungy details of making your web site look nice without distracting you from your creative process.
If you use WordPress (like I do), you may well be interested to know that WordPress 2.0.1 was just released and is available for download.
It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them, and watching how 2.0 handled under different loads.
We’ve rolled up all the most important fixes into a 2.0.1 release, which is now available for download. All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release