Yep, it’s time for the monthly newsletter (published semi-randomly).

For those of you who are using WordPress as your CMS, there’s a new version out: 2.5 It was just released this weekend. I’ve upgraded one of my sites to use WP 2.5, and I’ve been poking around to see how it works. This upgrade includes some major changes, so I’m going to suggest that you not upgrade unless you really know what you’re doing. It’ll take a while before I’m ready or able to offer any tech support for this version, so if you do choose to upgrade right away, you’ll be on your own for a while.

Speaking of WordPress and upgrades… I couple weeks ago I said I’d be doing some upgrading of this site and pulling it all into a WP CMS. Well… I got distracted and spent my time helping clients, so that didn’t get done all the way. Today is a cold rainy day with nothing going on, so I’m going to work on getting that completed today. If you find any problems with the site, please let me know. Also… If you have any suggestions on how to improve the site, please send them my way. One of the suggestions that we’ll be implementing is a page for current customers. This will have links to log into your control panel and billing accounts.

Over the past few years, we’ve gained a couple customers who are infamous for “breaking things” or finding the limitations in our system. This happened again last week. We discovered that the system breaks down if you try to purchase 2 packages on the same account. If you would like to do this, don’t worry. We can accommodate you. We just have to go in and tweak a couple things by hand. Just let us know you want to do this, and we’ll make sure that it’s set up and ready to go for you. And, of course, that goes for any problems or “non-standard” situations you might find yourself in with our service. We’re more than happy to tweak things in order to make it work better.

One big piece of news from behind the scenes: Parallels (the people who make the Plesk control panel we use) have just bought ModernBill (the billing & sign-up software we use), so there’s a good chance that the integration will improve and make things faster and easier for both us and you.

Thanks to all of you who’ve chosen Geek Niche.

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M Blaze Miskulin
President & Town Crier
Geek Niche, Inc.