In case you missed it on your WordPress Dashboard, WordPress 2.2 has just been released. It features over 200 bug fixes among many other noteworthy improvements.
Unfortunately, the much requested and long anticipated “tags” features was scrapped from this version, but it is expected to be released in version 2.3. Tagging will allow you to basically define sub-categories to individual blog posts on the fly. Tagging is a feature currently used by Technorati to better classify blog posts.
New features to WordPress 2.2 include:
- 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.
- A hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.
I am about to install it on my blog so I will let you know how it goes.
Download WordPress 2.2 today. If need help upgrading or installing version 2.2, check out their detailed upgrade instructions.
