So the big weekend is Saturday and Sunday June 11th and 12th at Johnson County Community College and the event looks packed with lots of great sessions to check out!

WordCamps are community organized meetings for users of WordPress, the blogging platform and content management system that is sweeping the online world.

Millions of people worldwide use WordPress, through WordPress.org and WordPress.com, and there are a lot of us in the Kansas City area. From scuba divers to the Lyric Opera, professional designers specializing in WordPress sites to the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City has a large and growing population of WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers.

Come to WordCamp and learn from one another, network, and celebrate the global phenomenon that is WordPress.

For more information you can jump over to the official website, follow WordPressKC on Twitter, and check the schedule of events as well.

Register now (Its 50 bucks) and see you there!

Since getting it I have been busy loading apps and making it the best device I can. 

This included the WordPress app and at this moment this blog post is being created with it.  Pretty sweet.

I will keep playing around with the app but wanted to get a post out using it.

So jump back a couple months ago and all of a sudden the plugin decided to start not posting my daily blog post which of course bummed me out.

But I am happy to report that this morning I woke up and found a new post was put up on the site by the plugin and I hope this is a sign that the posts will be back!!!  I know I have some followers who really enjoyed getting the daily roundup of what I found interesting around the interwebs.

Crossing fingers it is here to stay!!

Tonight (6/30) is the first meetup for WordPressKC and it will be great to see some familiar faces as well as meet some new peeps who are into blogging/wordpress.

Here are a few details about the event.

WordPressKC Meetup
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 6:00 PM @ Black Dog Coffeehouse (12815 W
87th Street Pkwy, Lenexa, KS 66215)

Topics of Discussion:
- What do YOU want from WordPressKC?
- Interests?
- Skill Levels?
- Disciplines?
- Wordcamp? Dates? Q&A
- Speaker Proposals (any documentation would be helpful)
- Sponsor Prospects (connections are always useful)
- List of local sites using WP (refer to Local Site Listing)

(via meetup.com)

Should be good times so if you use WordPress or just wanna find out about it I hope you can make it out for the event.  See you there!

Check out this little video for a rundown.

1. Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
2. Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
3. Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
4. Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

So have you upgraded? Had any issues? Let us know.

Now with that said if you are not a guru when it comes to updating systems or wanna make sure you do everything right and now bork your blog then the WordPress Automatic upgrade is the plugin for you. It makes the upgrade process a piece of cake!

Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

This has been a valuable plugin I would highly recommend. Oh and hey they just released version 2.9 so now is your chance to try it out.

So WordPress 2.8 is live for everyone to grab now and I decided to upgrade the ol' blog.   Overall it was a smooth upgrade without any issues that I can tell at this time.  Check out the video below to see some of the changes.....

For a full list of all the changes, bug fixes, and upgrades (over 180 of them) check out the codex

Just jumping around on the new .tv site I am really liking what I am seeing...this will be a great resource for those looking to start with wordpress, those having issues with a certain part of the blogging software, or those looking to check out the wordcamp stuff.

From the WordPress.tv crew

Our goal with WordPress.tv is simple:
To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.

I must say this is a great job by all. enjoy everyone.

from the wordpress blog:
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

After shooting out a message on twitter to see if anyone had any issues with the install and getting back only positive feedback I decided to make the jump to the new version.

My initial reaction to the new version - WOW. It is so customizable with the ability to move boxes around where I want them, hide menus, fast response times, and a sexy new look. I have to say that the development team really hit a home run with this one in my eyes.

Here is a little video highlighting the new version.

Have you made the jump to WordPress 2.7? What do you think? Did you have any issues with the upgrade?