WordPress 2.2 Released Today
Once again, WordPress has released a new version of its beloved blog software today. I just finished updating all my blogs to WordPress 2.1 and I have to update them again! I don’t think I will update my old blogs, but definitely try the new version on my new blogs. New goodies with WordPress 2.2..
* WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
* Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
* A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
* Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
* We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
* Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
* We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.
Get more information on WordPress 2.2
May 27th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I was a bit disappointed that they had dropped the tagging feature in 2.2… for release in 2.3.
That’s the one feature I really wanted, so I could drop UTW plugin.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I just installed WP 2.2 on one of my domains, and I can’t really tell the difference except the widget thingy, which I have no use anyway.
They said they got like 200 bugs out, so that should be enough reason to upgrade.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Woohoo! This is when those of us with Cpanel are thankfully for Fantastico and if you have your own server, even better as you can update Fantastico yourself.