Mere days after the security update to 2.0.7, WordPress V2.1 has now been released. Some pretty major improvements have been made, including:
- Autosave: Never lose a post in the middle of writing again.
- Tabbed Editor - easily switch between the text editor and HTML.
- A Spell Checker! I’ve been using Firefox’s, but why not?
- You can choose any ‘page’ to be the front page of your site - this increases the potential to use Wordpress as the basis for any kind of website or content management system.
- You can add sub-categories to your links.
- Improved comments moderation page.
- A new upload manager to massively improve the way you import videos pictures & audio.
- Improved database coding.
- Faster admin.
- A much improved feed system.
- A whole new version 2 of the Akismet spam killing plugin.
All this, more and V2.2 is promised for April 23rd. WordPress is getting better all the time, and if you’re serious about blogging, it’s time to make the switch from Blogger.
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Hey chris, i have made it over here at last!
great info! it will take me a while for all this to sink into the grey matter!
how did you pick title for blog?
Geez I just upgraded to 2.0.7.
Tell me about it Rose! I guess 2.0.7 was a security update, and you don’t have to go to 2.1….looking at the new features though, I’m going to!
Hi Claire, thanks for coming! Just give me a shout if I can help at all.
The title? I wanted something short, snappy, with ‘blog’ in the title and a .com address. It took a while, but I quite like it now. The tagline came after the name.
Thanks for that chris! will let you know. I am trying to figure out a name for blog if i do go too wordpress.
Correction hubby just upgraded it for me.
Run a naming competition on your blog Claire…
Rose, you’re very lucky, some people charge money for that….
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