WordPress Version 2.3 Released
It’s about time for you to upgrade your old WordPress version to the new WordPress version, because WordPress Version 2.3 “Dexter” has been released. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon. The new release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, better URL handling, and much more.
Here are some Wordpress 2.3 “Dexter” Features:
- Native Tagging Support: Allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your posts, if you so choose. WP has included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
- Update notification: You will be notified when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you whats the latest and greatest you can use.
- Better URL handling: Better SEO with a new feature canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more.
- Pending Review: A great new features for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
- Advanced Visual Editor Buttons: Allows users to access some features of TinyMCE that previously hidden. (screenshots)
- Updated Default Blogroll: No more personal blogs on WP default blogroll. WordPress 2.3 default blogroll now links to useful WordPress resources such as Development, Documentation, Plugins, Ideas, Support, Themes, and Planet WordPress.
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