WordPress one of the most popular blogging platform and the easiest one to get started without any prior knowledge of web designing languages or any database information. We already talked to much about WordPress 3.0 from its installation to enabling many features like
How to Upgrade your WordPress Blog to WordPress 3.0
URL Shortener Feature Under Your Own Domain Name
How to Guide on Integrating Multi-Site Options in WordPress 3.0
How to Guide on Enabling WordPress MU in WordPress 3.0
How to Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs in WordPress 3.0
How to Guide on Adding New WordPress Themes in WordPress 3.0
As i know that many of them faces certain issues while enabling these features and most of them are unhappy with certain features of WordPress 3.0.
Today WordPress.org announced that in WordPress version 3.2 (which will be coming in 2011) you will require PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0.15 as already WordPress 3.1 hasn’t come till yet. WordPress 3.0 will be using PHP 4 and runs on MySQL 4 and WordPress 3.1 will be the last version using this because from this version they are ending their support from it.
According to the stats, only 11 % of WordPress installs are running on PHP version below 5.2 and less than 6% of WordPress users running MySQL 4.
Now you need a new host which will support PHP version 5 and MySQL database version 5.0.15 so that you can easily upgrade your WordPress blog to WordPress 3.2.
To help you out in finding the new host you might be interested in reading these articles:
How to Guide On Choosing A Good Web Host
Pros and Cons of Shared Hosting
VPS Hosting Is It Good or Not
Recommended WordPress Hosting
Advantages and Disadvantages of Dedicated Hosting
And if you are looking to get some discount on any hosting then check out these to get the huge discount on purchasing a new account with any of them:
20% Discount On Any Hosting Plan of Hostgator WordPress Hosting
Free Domain Name And $50 Discount On Dreamhost WordPress Webhosting
If you are still looking to get started to make your online venture then you need a Good Domain Name hope these articles will help you out:
Tips On Choosing SEO Friendly Domain Name
Tools To Pick Up Good Domain Name
Finally in the comments section do let us know what you thought about it. Is it Good to have newer version of PHP and MySQL in WordPress??
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