Wordpress 2.3 Released
News from wordpress.org: [b]Wordpress 2.3 Released[/b]I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is [url=http://wordpress.org/download/]now ready for the world[/url].This release includes native tagging support, plugin updatenotification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release isnamed for the great tenor saxophonist [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Gordon]Dexter Gordon[/url].
The entire team is really proud of this release, and I’m happy that this is our second on-time release under our [url=http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/]new development schedule[/url].The grand experiment of a more agile WordPress with significantfeatures in the hands of users more often is working. I could write ablog post about each new feature, but I’ll try to be brief:
[list=1][*][b]Native tagging support[/b] allows you to use tags inaddition to categories on your posts, if you so choose. We’ve includedimporters for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags,and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using atagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The taggingsystem is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.[*]Our new [b]update notification[/b] lets you know whenthere is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you usehas 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.[*]We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call [b]canonical URLs[/b]which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect postswith changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cutoff in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helpsyour users, and it also [b]helps your search engine optimization[/b], as search engines like for each page to be available in one [url=http://www.answers.com/canonical?cat=technology]canonical[/url] location. [url=http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/wordpress-23-canonical-urls/]More info here[/url].[*]Our new [b]pending review[/b] feature will be great formulti-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by aneditor or administrator, where before they would just have to save adraft and hope someone noticed it.[*]There is new [b]advanced WYSIWYG[/b] functionality (wecall it the kitchen sink button) that allows you to access somefeatures of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.[/list]You’ll notice that two of those features are straight out of the [url=http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/?show=popular]most-voted for ideas list[/url]. That’s just the user facing stuff, if you’re a developer you’ll be interested in:
[list=1][*]Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.[*]We’re using the new jQuery which is “800% faster.”[*]Behind the user-facing tags system is a really [url=http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Version_2.3:New_Taxonomy]kickass taxonomy system[/url], which adds a ton of flexibility. It’s probably the biggest schema upgrade since version 1.5.[*]The importers have been revamped to be more memory efficient, and you can now add an importer through a plugin.[*]Through hooks and filters you can now [url=http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates/]override the update system[/url], the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser, and tons more than you could in 2.2.[*]The new $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.[*]Finally there were [url=http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3]over 351 tickets in Trac closed for this release[/url],with over a hundred people contributing. This is the polish, thehundreds of tiny bug fixes and features that make WordPress what it is.[/list]You can [url=http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.3]view the Codex for more information about the release[/url] and some screenshots. And of course [url=http://wordpress.org/download/]the place to download is always the same[/url]. Before you upgrade you may want to [url=http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/preparing-for-23/]check out our Preparing for 2.3 post[/url] and the [url=http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.3]list of compatible plugins on the Codex[/url].
A number of people are hosting upgrade parties around the world, [url=http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/269586/]including myself in San Francisco[/url]. If you are let me know and I’ll promote it on my blog.
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