自动独立域名以来，我一直使用Site5提供的主机空间。当时是$5 Deal的销售方案，2年过去了，Site5提供的空间方案也有所升级，主机配置也有所增加。还有大约半年时间，第一期合同就到期了，正好趁此机会将空间升级一下。

目前新的空间方案是这样的：

总体来说在这个价格上，这样的服务已经非常不错了。不过contract需要5年（60个月）才能享受到这个价格。

目前，2个blog都已经迁移过来的，其中一个需要从Wordpress 2.1升级到2.6，但DNS更新仍需要时间。Wiki和另一个主域名环境，暂时仍然需要Technology Support迁移到新系统中，所以仍然需要时间。

You might not notice that my blog has been upgrade to version 2.6, as well as SECRET_KEY has been added to the wp-config.php file.

There are several feature increase for 2.6:

1. Post revision. Of course, previous versions are view-only. (set WP_POST_REVISIONS to 0/false to disable or positive number to how many revisions to save.)
2. Word count. But you may seen as below, it completely doesn’t work for Chinese.
   



3. Integrated with Google Gear to staticize the backend of the Wordpress. (”Turbo” at the top right in backend)
4. Picture Edit.
5. Able to locate the wp-config.php and wp-content folder. (Actually not very useful to me)
6. Support Shift key to select multi-item. (Click the first item, hold Shift key and click the last item to select all entries between the two)
7. Remote Publishing control which allow you to enable or disable post from remote (such as Windows Live Writter). (Option->Writing)
8. Able to select default Avatars (Option->Discussion)
9. Plugins are sorted by Active/Inactive.

There is also another fix for me, since I didn’t see any others report the problem. While writing the post in Wordpress 2.5, scroll down the page, and press Enter in the TinyMCE edit box, the page will get back to the top. But this does not happen in version 2.6.

There is no any affect  to plugins, at least for my used plugins.

Unlike BSP hosted blogs, stand-alone blog owners need to be upgraded by themselves. It’s easy, but I don’t like the progress, esp. backup progress.

WordPress just released vertion 2.5. I have been using 2.5 RC from demo site of Wordpress China. The backstage management is re-designed and it is amazing. Accordingly, I have also upgraded my site.

Since I have never upgraded my WordPress site from version 2.1 when I initially set up the site, WP2.5 is a big progress for me: native tagging, new backstage management, etc.

There was a problem that defining the permalink while writing new post, since the “Permalink” section only displayed after post had been saved. While I’m using in 2.5 Final, the auto saving will make “Permalink” section appeared, so there is a chance to update the link. That never be a problem now.

I also re-grabbed the plugins and themes, so at the very begining, the theme will be set to default and will be assigned new themes once everything goes okay.

Update Mar 30@19:05: Theme is decided and all plugins are available now. Sitemap is re-generated w/o Category, Tag, and Archive pages to improve SEO. Some legacy plugins are remained since some posts rely on it.

Update Mar 30@23:16: Just found that the theme is designed for WordPress v2.2, so it is using UTW as tagging plugins, not the new native tagging. In that case, the theme will not show the buildin tags. And the design will not show Permalink, Trackback and Categories in main page. Simply edited the theme file, to make these available.

Update Apr 1@17:17: I finally disabled “Add to any” and “Add to any subscribe” plugins, which made my blog loaded really slow.