Blue Host Users

I have been looking through this forum and I have noticed quite a number of people having problems with installations of WordPress 2.5, so I thought I’d offer a beacon of hope to those of you who are using Bluehost as your host serving company. I have, traditionally installed new versions of WordPress through Fantastico Deluxe, one of the software packages that Bluehost offers to its customers (and I want to put in a purely personal plug for Bluehost itself – I have my own domain there, actually, two, both of which I got through GoDaddy but I found GoDaddy impossible to work with, not their products but their support, I switched hosts two weeks after getting my domain names, then re-registered them through Bluehost – whose support is outstanding, you can talk to a live person, who can see the same files you are looking at, find them if you lose them as we newbies are wont to do and generally keep you afloat and moving easily). Well, the problem with Fantastico is that it runs 6 weeks behind WordPress releases, and for those which are security issues, that is quite a long time. So, this past weekend I got a message from Bluehost telling me they are now offering SimpleScripts is an automated script installer just like Fantastico as a standard part of their hosting package. The advantage to it, they said, was that it is MUCH faster at offering upgrades and when I looked was already offering WordPress 2.5. I backed up my posts and let SimpleScripts give me a clean install of 2.5 – which came up blank, as if it were a brand new install of WordPress, it took me two tries to restore my posts, and but one to reinstall my theme and Askimet. Minutes, clean install and no problems. The only issues I had came about because WordPress 2.5 really is very different and I needed to redo some things I had already done – probably all my fault, in terms of users and user privileges and there is a new user admin, with a new password, that you need to work around, but changing things was a snap, and now that I’ve had my first install with SimpleScripts, it will remember what we’ve done and retain the settings I’ve created for future upgrades. So – if any of you are using Bluehost, and having trouble with manual installs because Fantastico does not yet offer WordPress 2.5, check out SimpleScripts. :^) gene