WordPress 3.0

Jun 25, 2010 by d0rr    No Comments    Posted under: Blog

WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious”, was released on 17 June 2010 after half a year of hard work by 218 contributors.

I personally don’t find any significant updates in this version (expected much significant updates e.g. platform overhaul or so since its goes from version 2.x to 3.x). The only feature that caught my attention is the merge of WordPress MU and WordPress. Now that we can set up multiple blogs from the same installation.

Among other new (and somewhat notable features according to them) are:

• - sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten
• - new APIs for theme that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)
• - new lighter interface
• - the contextual help on every screen
• - 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements
• - bulk updates with a single click

Meanwhile, you may watch the WordPress 3.0 video tour below.

I’ve just done my update from WordPress 2.8 to WordPress 3.0 through auto update and it (really) takes only seconds! Kudos to WordPress

To those who wonders, you will have to add the following line in your wp-config.php before you can add more sites

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

You shall now see a new admin page Tools > Network

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