WordPress 2.3 Released

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Posted in » WordPress - by Ades on September 26th, 2007

WordPress 2.3 has been released today. It’s one of the major upgradeSome of the new features in the 2.3 include the following:

  1. Tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose.
  2. New update notification lets you know 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 our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
  3. 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. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
  4. New pending review feature 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.
  5. New advanced WYSIWYG functionality that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

Matt of WordPress is holding an upgrade party in San Fransisco today (26 Sep 2007). Here is the details:

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
7:00 PM

Matt’s Apt
355 1st Street
San Francisco, 94105
37.7869, -122.394

WordPress 2.3 is coming out on Monday, so come out Wednesday evening and upgrade your blog with the pros. How badly can you screw it up when the developers are right there? If you upgrade your blog before Wednesday come and help out others and make feature requests.

Super-chill event, just bring your laptop, yourself, and your WordPress blog. I’ll provide booze, soft drinks, and wifi.

Topics of discussion will include Trackback Etiquette: Ping on the First Date?, Join the Conspiracy to Relabel All Websites Blogs, and Putting the Friend in XFN.

So if you are in SF area and do not know how to upgrade your WP, then head to this party for a free upgrade support by the pros. Nice idea for making a buzz about the new release.

Download WP2.3: http://wordpress.org/download/

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5 Responses to “WordPress 2.3 Released”

  1. By CompuWorld on Sep 26, 2007

    I wont be using 2.3 so quick as it is bound to have some bugs..

    I will wait for few to use and see if there isnt anything big which could deter my schedule than I will surely use it!

    by the way

    i don’t think i will use tags (categories are enough!! what do you think?)

    new update notification will be fine even though it is already there in our dashboards!!

    i use the traditional www redirect instead of no-www redirect!!

    new pending review feature and new WYSIWYG are invited!!

  2. By Ades on Sep 26, 2007

    Yes there is a possibility that there might be some bugs, it’s worth to wait a little. But I am sure hundreds of people will be upgrading today, so I think there will be some feedback on this version by the end of the day.

    I won’t be using the tags too, I think people tend to use them less for navigation purposes.

    New WYSIWYG interface is really a big welcoming feature for this release.

  3. By malique on Sep 26, 2007

    i’ve yet to upgrade cos most of my plugins arent compatible (no updates yet), one quick question though, Ades.

    the ‘extra’ feature of tinyMCE, is it the one where you could access by shift+alt+V ? Or is it something much better? :D

  4. By Mulamaker on Sep 26, 2007

    There are lot of people complaining that their current themes doesn’t support new tags feature. I would wait little longer until they sort out the bugs.

  5. By uncle sha on Sep 27, 2007

    Alot of my plugins was listed as not compatible, that’s a bummer

    Most likely I won’t upgrade and will stick to v2.2.+ legacy


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