we’re all been waiting for the new release of Wordpress, version 3.0 which also called “Thelonious”.
in version 3.0 there are some excellent new features like custom post types, custom background and abilities to manage your own menu, to read more about these features you can click here: wordpress 3.0 surprises.
now in order to test and play with all these features, you need some supporting themes for wordpress 3.0, here’s the list:
This week I’ve downloaded and installed locally the much anticipated wordpress 3 version. the much talked about version where wordpress Mu will no longer exist and will merge into wordpress, it will be called Wordpress Multi Site. apart from that feature there are numerous new and exciting features in wordpress 3.0, here are some of them:
New Registration Details, No More Admin and generated password
Wordpress 3.0 is changing right from the very first stage, installation and registration, no more default admin user name and generated password, now the admin can set is own username and insert the desired password by himself.
a lot has been said about the new wordpress version and indeed there are some excellent new features, the post thumbnail, edit image, trash status, mass plugin upgrade, snd much more…
here is the official list from wordpress.org:
New Features
User Features
Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash‘ or delete depending on the screen
Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
Separate fields for ‘image alt‘ and ‘image caption‘ in Media uploader
Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt‘ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
Export and import custom taxonomies
Admin copy improvements
Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
Now it’s offiicial Wordpress 2.8 – baker is released with a whole new exciting features.
Major improvements are: - Wordpress 2.8 is much faster
- Themes directory with new options like browse, install and preview.
- Redesign of the widgets area. all widgets on the same page.
- new Screen Options on every page.
recommended plugin of the week – Now it’s really easy to Track Wordpress Blog Visitors in Real Time. There is no need to have any additional Java Scripts and HTML Codes.
There are many ways of using wordpress not only as a blog platform. here’s a collection of the top unusual uses of wordpress with links to other posts who already gathered the best uses also. comment here if you want…
If you are somewhat technically challenged and have tried to install WordPress yourself you may find that the “Famous 5 minute install” takes much longer. Depending on what hosting account you choose you may experience database issues, if you can even figure out what a database is. You may need to add some code to your. htaccess file, or create one if you don’t have one.
Although the WordPress installation is much easier than most people realize, you will save yourself a lot of frustration if you take some time to prepare first.
