Wordpress 2.1: Ella

Posted by Stretch | Filed under Blogs, News, Site News, Wordpress

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Wordpress has been updated to version 2.1, and includes many new features.

  • Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
  • Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
  • The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
  • Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
  • New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
  • You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
  • Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
  • Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
  • Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
  • More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
  • Pages can now be drafts, or private.
  • Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
  • The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
  • Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
  • Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
  • The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
  • A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

It also includes over 550 bug fixes.

I’m currently using Wordpress version 2.0, so I think its time for an update, and will be doing so tonight.

Edit: Update finished, and everything seems to be running fine.

Permalink | January 25th, 2007

4 Responses to “Wordpress 2.1: Ella”

  1. Lobsterman Says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 4:01 am

    One thing they didn’t mention is the half-baked merge of the links and post categories which in the current state I wouldn’t even release as alpha.

  2. Stretch Says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    I don’t use the wordpress links system.

  3. MHC Says:
    January 26th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    I’ll check this weekend the user forums to make sure about possible problems with plug-in and themes. I sure don’t want to mess up what I have working right now under WP 2.0.7.

    The casualty to the WP 2.0.7 upgrade was only one plug-in and I would guess it will be updated soon as plenty of folks use it.

  4. MHC Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

    This might be of interest to you, Stretch: list of plugins compatibile with WordPress version 2.1.