I’ve decided to take a leaf out of Matt Levenhagen’s book, and produce a follow-along - as I go through the steps I typically carry out when upgrading a site.

I first saw Matt use this technique when he was first developing his AdWords Campaign Blasts method when he was still part of Web Profit School. The WPS members really enjoyed the approach as it illustrated the steps he carried out to quickly test Adwords Campaigns. BTW - if you’re interested in developing your Adwords skills as well as get general all-round internet marketing insights, you really need to check out Matt’s membership site, XtremeProfits - a site packed with great internet marketing street-smarts, and a friendly, active forum that provides excellent Adwords campaigns coaching.

OK - back to the WordPress 2.5 follow-along.

This will cover some of the code upgrade issues that I need to tackle as the producer of the Rapid Niche Websites System - but this could be useful for WordPress users - as it will give them some clues regarding what to look for if they use a number of plugins to customise their WordPress installation.

RNW Feature : Note the use of the Category Introduction - one of RapidNicheWebsites features. This allows you to add any post as an introduction to a category. Along with the visual benefit of providing a more interesting category page (you could for instance include an image in the intro …), you now also have the ability to allocate SEO-related custom fields - further improving the SEO ranking of the category page.