Ryan Boren announced on his blog yesterday that WordPress 2.6, Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. The features list is nice, and a lot of the things that were missing in the 2.5 release have been included in version 2.6. He also stated that they are aiming for a mid-July release for 2.6 - a full month ahead of the August 2008 scheduled release.
In an announcement made this afternoon on both the PunBB forum and on their own website, the PunBB development team has forked the forum software project and created the latest addition to the scene - FluxBB.
Significant changes have taken place in the PunBB organization since the announcement last October that the rights for the project had been sold to another company that wanted to support the project financially.
I made the decision to migrate this website over to another hosting account a few weeks ago, and wanted to find a better way to manage the site. I had worked with WordPress recently on a project for a friend, doing the initial install and upgrading it twice.
On a side note, I had "test-driven" WordPress a few times over the years, but it never really quite did what I needed at the time. However, this time around, I was impressed with what WordPress has to offer, so I decided to use it to rebuild the site on the new server. This post details all that went on to make it happen.
I am still working on getting the site up and running using WordPress. I'm now down to the final stages, and all that is left is to complete the styling of the blog entries and comments.
I've really learned a lot in the past couple of weeks working on this project that I can apply to client jobs. I already have two clients in mind to convert their existing sites from their current CMS to WordPress.
Hopefully I will complete the work on the stylesheet so that I can take this version of the site live yet today.
UPDATE: It's 10:30pm, and I finished up a couple of hours ago - the site conversion is now complete. I'll be doing a more detailed write-up about how I set everything up, probably some time tomorrow.