Just upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.2.1 with no apparent upsets. It’s a refinement of the major 2.2 version announced a few weeks ago and fixes some of the things (about 43 of them) the new version broke, in particular, the very fine ExecPHP widget that lets me create the category cloud and the bloglines-linked blogroll, while working within a drag and drop environment in the editor.

Apparently, there were three major security flaws in the original 2.2 version, so Wordpress users are to regard this version as a necessary upgrade.

I’d heartily recommend Wordpress to anyone who fancies having their own blog, and anyone that already does with another service. You hear a lot about security problems and so forth, but that’s only because it’s open source and they’re prepared to be transparent about the whole thing. If you get hosting with a decent provider (I use Bluehost, which is cheap-as-chips and has been very reliable) then it’s really easy to install and maintain.

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