Every serious blogger knows about the pressure of writing good posts, keeping traffic levels up and performing all things necessary to put their blog on the map. While the amount of pressure bloggers can put themselves in depends partly on what their goals are, the web is littered with posts, explaining to bloggers active on all levels how much work it can be to create and grow an active community around a new blog.

If you do a Google search on this topic, you’ll quickly learn that there are many reasons that can drive bloggers in the direction of quitting. And many do quit. Some of the reasons are : not enough time to write and monitor what happens in the blogosphere, feeling that you’re not receiving enough return on the investment of time and though, or just the pure frustration of blogging in the dark for months on end.

It was actually just a few days ago that I was talking to Daniel Scocco from Dailyblogtips through MSN about how much I felt like closing the blog and forgetting about it. Since he never really expressed himself on DBT about this particular topic, he posted ‘Hold Tight, It Will Only Get Easier‘ a few days later, which advices new bloggers to hang in there a little longer before deciding to stop. Worth a read for many new bloggers.

But what if you have totally different reasons for quitting your blog ? Like myself for instance. Though newmediatype is a new blog, up until now it has had positive reactions and a reasonable amount of recognition from other bloggers. Honestly, in my case they are / were personal issues of an emotional nature, which cause(d) me to feel that I might not be able to devote myself to the blog as I would like to.

Which brings me to the point of this post . . .

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If you’re looking to update your wordpress system, or have done so in the past, then you’re probably familiar with these upgrade steps.

The information given by Wordpress.org is comprehensive and it’s highly advisable to read the extended upgrade process as well, since it mentions important points not given in the three-step update method.

Basically, Wordpress.org explains the most essential points and lists the steps necessary to perform a successful update of the Wordpress system.

Some of the included points are : Checking minimum requirements with your web hosting provider (compatibility of Wordpress with MySQL & PHP versions), how to back up your Wordpress system and a way to avoid custom files such as your theme files from being overwritten by default files during the update process.

As said, the steps are complete, but having upgraded many web CMS systems over the years, I feel there are a few points that can be added.

Read on to see 4 simple, but useful points that I aren’t in the official list, but nonetheless can be important to many Wordpress users who’re planning on updating . . .

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As announced, the first 5 question in-depth interview is kicked of by Darren Rowse of Problogger. Though Darren is well known and probably doesn’t need to be introduced to most readers, here’s a little info anyway on who this Australian blogger is.

Darren Rowse is a blogger who has turned a hobby into his profession, to be more clear, he has swapped his day time job for a blogging career.

One of the fruits of his online endeavors is the popular blog called ProBlogger. Having around 40.000 RSS subscribers, ProBlogger is one of the most popular blogs in the niche of helping people use their blog for making money online.

The growth of ProBlogger over the last years, the popularity of blogs in general and the large amount of people trying to earn some extra income by blogging obviously made Darren an important target for this 5 in-depth question interview.

His answers should be helpful and interesting to bloggers aspiring to someday go pro, or to just whomever is seeking to improve their blogging skills.

So, for those curious about Darren’s answers, the complete interview can be found under the read more link …

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