Looking forward to WordPress 2.5

This blog uses WordPress, and I am liking it fairly well. I spend enough time on things that are complicated, so having a simple blog engine is just fine for me. The WordPress authors have a new release coming – version 2.5. It was supposed to be released March 10, but has been delayed and the latest news is that the new release comes out March 17. We’ll see.

I am looking forward to this release, but not for the reasons one may think. I actually am not quite sure what is in it. I just know it is a pretty big release so once it comes out, upgrading from an old version may be a chore. So I have decided to freeze everything with my blog until 2.5 gets here.

You see, I am planning to split out Accidental Essayist from Tanbark Acres. I have been simply having the Tanbark Acres site grab anything that is a “horse” category blog and place this in a news section. That is working fine except that for Tanbark Acres I would really like to take advantage of all the functionality WordPress has to offer – better navigation through posts, polls, tags, static page maintenance, etc. And therefore I have decided to reconstruct Tanbark Acres on top of its own blog platform. That will be a fairly time consuming task. No need to do it now and then have to migrate it once 2.5 comes out.

And so I wait. But I am pretty excited about this little endeavor. It will be nice to have a true blog engine for TA, and it wil be nice to start using Accidental Essayist once again for just personal frivolity.

So many projects, so little time.