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An exciting event will take place in the Southeast Asian region. On the 6th of September 2008, a WordCamp event will take place in the Philippines.

WordCamp is the premier event for WordPress users and developers.

One of the objectives of WordCamp Philippines is to encourage more developers to use and deploy WordPress, not only as a blogging engine but also as a full-featured content management system for Web sites. Another is to increase the number of WordPress users and developers in the country. By developers, we mean programmers of WordPress plugins and designers of themes & templates.

This free event is generously sponsored by:

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
• Free Online Flash Games
• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia
• Orange County Business Lawyer

WordCamp Philippines 2008 is organized by the talented group behind Mindanao Bloggers. Be there at College of St. Benilde, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines.

I’ve heard that Matt Mullenweg will be there. Who is Matt? He just happened to be the founding developer of WordPfress! It’s going to be a whole wild wild party!

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The WordPress 2.5 demo site is now available. You can take a short glance on what will be the new look of WordPress on the next version. As WordPress announced before that they will skip WordPress 2.4 and instead release WordPress 2.5 for the convenience of all users.

If you want to see what WordPress 2.5 will be, you can visit their demo site.

WordPress 2.5 Demo Site: http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin/

username: admin
password: demo

WordPress 2.5 seems to have a lot of new features. The new dashboard design really seduced me. It was so perfect since I’m already bored with their present design. It’s been more than so many years that my eyes see it. We want a change! I’m sure that everyone is very excited for the releasing of WordPress 2.5.

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So there will be a skipping of version? I just got a news from my dashboard that WordPress will have the next version of WordPress 2.5 instead of having WordPress 2.4. They announced last December that they will release WordPress 2.4 with all new features this January 2008. But now, there will be no releasing of new version of WordPress this month instead on March.

News from Weblog Tools Collection:

As discussed in the developer mailing list, the next release of WordPress will be in March instead of January because of the holidays and the amount of changes that will take place in the codebase as well as the admin section. The decision was made to consider 2.4 a skipped December release and move straight on to 2.5. The reasons for the change in the schedule include some good things cooking in the oven and the developers do not want this to become a rushed release.

So to sum things up. There will be no 2.4. Instead, we will see 2.5 which is scheduled for release in March. Various official docs and roadmaps will be updated in due course.

Maybe they are right with this decision. Of course we don’t want a blog with lot of bugs. Hope that what we expect in WordPress 2.4 would be better in WordPress 2.5. We salute you WordPress team for making this all possible. We are looking forward on more updates and upgrades.

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