Wordpress has announced its release for version 2.6.1 on Aug 15. I have updated my blog and tested it out therefore I am writin this post to let you guys know that it is available.

Who should download it? If you are unhappy with 2.6 than download as stated in the Official Release Post in Wordpress Blog. But if something is not working for you than you should try out this release.

They have fixed alot of minor bugs. Including the one that I mentioned.

A whole lot of other minor bugs were fixed. Look here for Details.

Knowing me, a new wordpress is out and Balkhis is out to upgrade because I like to get it. So now I have it. I see that my problem is fixed, so that is good.

Download Wordpress 2.6.1 Now

After seeing this on multiple blogs and having it recommended by many other friend bloggers, I am going to adapt to Link Roundup and experiment this. I am calling this even Sweet Monday Link Roundup and the posts displayed will be from my favorite blogs, blogs that I read alot.

Kicking of the first link roundup is

Smashing Magazine’s study on Big Blogs. Excellent read, but you can just get the basic idea by scrolling down and reading the Bottom Line.

My friend Nabil over at Enkay Blog wrote a very good post about the title selection of posts. It is a very good read, and I can second that blog post. Having a good title is the key to recieve alot of traffic to that blog post.

My friend on many different social networks and a very famous blogger, Darren Rowse is asking a simple question. How Long Do you take to write a post?. Care to answer?

Jim over at TheNetfool is teaching you how to use images in your blog post. Images give life to your blog, and I am sure you have heard the saying, picture speaks a thousand words. Give your post some life by reading Jim’s Strategies.

Regular Reader and a friend of mine at Thoushallblog is sharing How Did Google Calculate YOUR Pagerank. If you are a PR Junkie read that. Its a good read.

A good friend that I met on Plurk who is from my Birth City and a year younger than me Muhammad Siyab is a very passionate writer. His writing style is very interesting. Check out his post about Ambition: Too Much Of It – Black Holes That Bloggers Get Trapped Into #1.

My regular reader who owns Networking Blogger has written a very good guide to buy Web Hosting. I will say if you are looking for webhosting check it out.

Another one of my reader’s here at Balkhis wrote a good post about AdSense Myths and Cures. It is interesting as I will say.

One of my favorite blogs, Zac Johnson shares a very interesting post about colors in the design, and how it relates to affiliate marketing. Now you have to go read the post to see why Blue is my favorite color and both Balkhis and Uzzz Productions are blue.

Rockstar Sid another Balkhis reader have a good post called Simple Stumbleupon tips to Generate Traffic.

With that I conclude the first Sweet Monday Link Roundup.

If you are looking to kick your week off then take a look at some of these interesting reads.

Well, just right now I got back from Orlando as I am writing this post it is 3 a.m EST. I saw there have been a Pagerank Update.

Yup Balkhis got a PR 4.

Uzzz Productions also got a PR 4.

Wordscrawl.com has maintained its PR 4.

Ekey managed to get a PR 2. (with no promotion)

Some people were happy, while some were upset. In my opinion, PR is nothing more than a number and thats all. I would recommend those who are unhappy to just ignore PR and it will come to you. There are alot of websites that didn’t recieve any PR but still have alot of value such as Enkay Blog.

My Friend Jim over at TheNetFool has made a very good list. Eventhough I am not in the list, but I read that blog often and am subscribed to the feeds, so I saw that.

I am too tired to write now, but will update you with pictures from the trip and all later.

Update me with what you got in your Green Bar.

Hola Balkhis Users,

I am thinking that I want to thank all of my readers who read this blog and give me feedback. I want to get to know my readers very closely. Therefore I am starting this thread so we can all be friends.

The purpose of this thread is to get you to list your social media profiles here as well as the link to your main site. I will go forward in the list and add all of you.

Blogosphere is more like a family. We should all help each other out and stay updated.

If you want more friends, and more visits to your site. Simply put a list of your social media network profiles in the post below along with your major site link. I will try to add all of you guys.

I will start with my profiles:

Plurk – I am here the most if you are not then Join Now

Twitter

Digg

Youtube

Revver

Technorati

Will be looking forward to see how many of you are actually looking for more friends.

Last year, Wordpress decided to close off their Theme Directory. Which made it difficult for alot of designers like myself to promote our themes. Many people went their own ways listing their themes on their own sites but there wasn’t that one collection.

As Wordpress updates, it was getting harder and harder to find themes that worked well with newer features. Well Thanks to God that Wordpress has opened up the Themes Directory Again.

All of these themes will be human reviewed before being published to ensure the quality. So make sure you submit only the top notch theme. Also make sure you start submiting your themes quick before the que gets too big.

Another thing to take in account is do not put more then one link in the footer if you want to have a chance getting in the list. If you have more then one designer link, then more likely then not you won’t make it in.

But all to all the good news is that the Theme Directory is back up.

By the way if you guys haven’t noticed I have released my e-book that teaches you how to make a magazine style theme, so take a look.