WordPress Wednesday - WordPress 2.3 Beta
I don’t know how many of you pay attention to your WordPress dashboard, but for those of you who don’t you may be interested to know that you can be a beta tester. Currently, beta 2 is available for download and install. This would be a great opportunity to setup a test blog to try out some new functionality and to test if your theme works with the new version.
If you are running a WordPress blog, you already have the site hosted somewhere. I don’t know about your host, but hostmonster gives me unlimited subdomains. This is where I have recently setup a test site to try out new themes, plugins, WordPress versions before moving them to production. Having a test site and taking advantage of the WordPress beta program can give you an advantage over your competitors when it comes to utilizing new technologies and also result in less blog downtime.
This is also the perfect time to ask for some help from fellow bloggers. Send a few of them an email with the url of your test site and ask them to test it for you. Be specific as to what you want them to test or what type of feedback you are requesting. I’m willing to bet that not too many bloggers out there have a test site that is used in this way. You may go years without having an issue without a test site, but the first time an upgrade causes havoc on your site, you’ll be happy that it is only a test site that experiences downtime.
Posted on September 5, 2007
By Jason Spence
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