Peter Westwood puts out a weekly digest of Wordpress updates. Wordpress 2.5 is on the brink of being released, but here are a few of the highlights which I think were worth highlighting. This week’s digest has some particularly interesting updates.

• Introduction of the beginnings of a plugin update system (#5586).
• Changes to allow uploads to be stored outside of the WP path and have custom URLs ([6780]).
• Allow is_single(), is_category(), and is_tag() to accept arrays of items to test (#5593).
• Reduction of the number of SQL queries made by wp_count_posts() (#5820).
• Addition of random order option to wp_tag_cloud() (#5726).

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“This is what I’ve been working on since I left CNET. The site is still just a shell though, a lot more tidying up to do there.” Matt has come a very long way from where he once started. Matt now has a very profitable business model that Wordpress.com is wrapped around and is moving in the direction of making acquisitions.

Gathering from what else has been happening on the ‘net recently, it seems that making corporate acquisitions is the latest fad around.

Matt is proud to be boasting a “three times faster” loading time already. We have been planning on moving over to Gravatars soon anyway, but this is just another encouragement to do that.