After some inexplicable code showed up on the ski club web site that I work on and then the seemingly catastrophic event of having all of the pages on that site being mysteriously turned into posts and basically disappearing, I was alerted that I was the victim of an exploit of WordPress called “Magic Shell”. And with that I say a hearty “Fuck You” to all Russian developers.

After making a few tweaks, I went into full-bore attack mode and upgraded from WordPress 2.2 to 2.5. I don’t know how I missed versions 2.3 and 2.4, but oh well. I’m sure I missed nothing.

I think most people will agree that the newest version is seriously sweet and although it doesn’t fix ever annoyance completely, it makes a valiant effort. Built-in image uploading and inserting (closer to what Blogger offers) and a swank new design, make this upgrade, well, pretty exciting.

One new feature is something called the “Media Library”. I had zero idea what this was all about until I found this great video on a fantastic site called “Wordpress training: Free WordPress training videos and blog tutorials“. So freaking cool. Go check it out… now!