WordPress 2.9 introduced batch upgrading of third party plugins, among other features. Given that most of us tend to use a dozen plugins, which get updated more often than not, this is probably the most useful of all new features of WordPress 2.9. The problem is, how to batch-upgrade plugins? The obvious...

WordPress 2.9 – Carmen – is out. You can read Matt talking about all that is new and improved in this major update. While waiting for 2.9.1 to squash major bugs is a good idea, I couldn’t hold myself back and updated PC Tonic pronto. No visible bugs yet. WordPress.org

WordPress 2.8.6 was released a few days ago, and as always, I was among the first to hit the “Automatically update” button on my dashboard. However I ran into some trouble for the first time while auto-updating WordPress.   Whenever I see the words ‘fatal’ and ‘error’ together, I automatically...