Wordpress announced their latest version, Wordpress 2.2, dubbed Getz. According the the official Wordpress site there are some significant improvements in this new version and I am dying to try it out once I get he time to upgrade. I have refrained from upgarding from my present 2.1.2 version to the 2.1.3 because news have been abound of the impending release of 2.2
Major improvements includes (Taken from Wordpress.org release available in full here)
- 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.
- We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.
There are a total of 244 changes made to this newest version and if you are geeky enough, you can take a peek at the changes there. It all looks like Greek to me.
What I liked about the new version will be the Wordpress Widgets. The plugin that I use now is so slow loading whenever I want to add anything in my sidebar. The other one will be the Blogger importer. I have tried importing from my old blogs at Blogger with not much luck so far. Hopefully this new version will fare better with me. I am not very concerned about the full Atom feed, but I suppose it will be very useful to others. In all, I think this will be a worthy upgrade. My only grouse is I hope Wordpress won’t come up with 2.2.1 in another 2 weeks because of some unseen bugs like what happened last time. It’s no fun at all upgrading every little while when everything is running smoothly. We never know what could go wrong during the upgrading process.
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