WordPress has released version 2.3 and is named Dexter in regards to the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
Here is the lowdown of new features that are in this release:
1. Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your posts, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
2. The new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you whats the latest and greatest you can use.
3. WordPress has cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
4. The new pending review feature will be great for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
5. There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.
For a list of full feature read here.
Please take note before you upgrade that certain Plugin, especially related to ‘categories’ are not compatible with WordPress 2.3, click here to find a list of compatible 2.3 Plugins.
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September 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
I’m glad that the new WP is search engine friendly by default. Therefore I don’t have to use too much plug-in just for optimizing my site.