Finally as I got back to Gainesville, Last night I updated Balkhis to wordpress 2.7, the latest version. Wordpress 2.7 is named Coltrane in honor of American Jazz Sexophonist John Coltrane. Coltrane was released on December 11, 2008 far after the planned date which was November 2008. I’d rather have it late then having to update few times after but one bug is still there. The plugin WP-Affiliate is not working with Wordpress 2.7. Which was the reason why I downgraded on the first place.

Until I find another alternative for that plugin, I will stay with 2.6.5. There are too many referral links on balkhis that is helping me generate all the revenue from these posts. I can’t afford to lose that because of one update. If you are not using this plugin, then you should definitely use Wordpress 2.7. My other sites are upgraded to WP 2.7.

Wordpress blog has posted this video that features everything:

Everything that I mentioned in my review is added into this version and some.

I will suggest that you guys check out 20+ Great Wordpress 2.7 Compatible Plugins.

If you guys know alternative to WP-Affiliate please let me know. You can Download Wordpress 2.7 here.

This is an exciting release because of the new look, and I will try to get updated as soon as I can once I figure out the solution to my plugin problem.

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Ok, so I have posted a few times that I was actually beta testing wordpress 2.7 on Balkhis. I even posted a review a while back. Well since that point on, wordpress made some very good changes into the look which makes wordpress admin panel look like that you are using a mac. A lot of mac style graphics.

But that was not the reason why I switched back from wordpress 2.7 to wordpress 2.6.3. I actually switched because some parts were not working. One of them was scheduling a post. If you guys haven’t notice most of the time Balkhis post goes live on 7:30 a.m EST unless planned otherwise. Well I don’t really get up that time and hit the publish button. Scheduled posts feature lets me do it automatically. But for some reason it didn’t work in wordpress 2.7 Beta edition. I am sure it was a minor bug, but I couldn’t deal with it. But I said lets give them a day to fix it.

I tried again, and it wasn’t fixed. But the major downfall was that all of my affiliate links stopped working. Meaning WP-Affiliate was not working with the new version of Wordpress. Now I cannot afford to lose that. I am making most of my revenue from those affiliate links embedded into the posts. If that plugin does not work, I can’t make any money from this site.

That was the main reason why I decided to degrade balkhis from a beta wordpress version that is rich with a lot of other features to the most stable version wordpress 2.6.3.

So I went to Market Leverage Lunch where I got interviewed for Market Leverage TV. So watch the episode of this week for Market Leverage TV and My interview is towards the end. If you haven’t join market leverage. Join Market Leverage Now.

My Interview on Market Leverage

Balkhis Break Dancing – or a bit of break dancing

So as you know that I headed down to Orlando to have lunch with Market Leverage. Their office is in a very nice area. A lot of other corporate offices are there like Chase, AAA and others. One thing you gotta make sure if you go there is don’t speed because the speed limit is only $35 and the cops are hiding in the bushes. I saw a lot of people getting pulled over.

But anyways ML has been mentioned in the Orlando Business Magazine for being the most innovative work environment. The reason for that is because they are cool. They have a very friendly work environment with great food. Wii room, and everyone have this little cool shooting guns that shoot out foam darts. So it was an awesome trip. They have a very nice lunch room which is also a conference room. There are a lot smaller conference room.

I loved their studio as I got the behind the scenes MLTV looks, but I won’t add it in this post because I will link to the MLTV where I am interviewed with the video of Dina messing up haha lol so wait till this Monday I think. Sorry Dina.

Guys Dina is the best host. She is heck a lot of fun to mess around with and pick on specially if you are wii bowling. But she is a great representative of Market Leverage.

So check out the pictures below along with the video tour that was given to me by Rebecca from ML. She is also awesome and was amazing at giving me company all the time while I was in the office.