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Wordpress 2.2 Is In The House
By Andy Beal
Expert Author
Article Date: 2007-05-16
If, like me, you haven't yet upgraded your WordPress blog to version 2.1, don't bother.
You can pass "go", collect $200 and go straight to version 2.2.
The new version fixes more than 200 bugs and includes lots of new user features. According to the WordPress official blog, here's what you're getting:
* 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.
There's also some new developer features, such as:
* A new set of WordPress-specific XML-RPC APIs that allow…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Whoa, what happened? I must have fallen asleep. ;-)
If you're a developer, head on over to the WordPress blog for all the "developer stuff".
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About the Author:
Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant and considered one of the world's most respected and interactive search engine marketing experts. Andy has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Alaska Air, DeWALT, NBC and Experian.
You can read his internet marketing blog at Marketing Pilgrim and reach him at andy.beal@gmail.com.
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