WordPress 3.0 Released 79
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from the now-even-wordier dept.
from the now-even-wordier dept.
An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."
Re:Thanks Wordpress (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, because god knows those are the only types of blogs in existence...
The upgrade process was painless (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The upgrade process was painless (Score:3, Informative)
Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.
Re:Malformed HTML (Score:2, Informative)
I can understand why, when your homepage produces this. [w3.org]
Re:The upgrade process was painless (Score:5, Informative)
Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.
If you have access to your wp-config.php file, you can enable the autoupdater without FTP by adding this line:
define('FS_METHOD','direct');
WordPress will now update directly without requiring FTP access.
(Source: Random Tech Solutions [wordpress.com])
Re:Thanks Wordpress (Score:5, Informative)
No kidding! All [discovermagazine.com] blogs [scienceblogs.com] are [wildyeastblog.com] worthless [calculatedriskblog.com]. AMIRITE??
Re:Missing Features (Score:3, Informative)
The Disqus comment system plugin works perfectly fine for me...
Good release for users, even better for developers (Score:2, Informative)
3.0 is a good release for end-users, and it would be a good release even without the eye-catching additions. For developers and theme makers it is even better, because it makes their jobs easier. It continues to improve under the hood. And it still has areas where there is much room for improvement. (A part I do not particularly enjoy is its cluttered interface, but at least you can customize and unclutter it.)
I published a detailed write-up on what WordPress 3.0 brings for end-users and for developers:
http://op111.net/76 [op111.net] -- WordPress 3.0: What is new
Hope you find it useful!