Wordpress 2.9 Released

Posted on December 20, 2009

The latest Wordpress version has been released and any self-hosted blog can see the alert in the dashboard. The name is WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

Like any other newest version it offers the latest improvements and innovations which are supposedly better than before. Here are some of those:

We now have rel=canonical support for better SEO.
There is automatic database optimization support, which you can enable in your wp-config.php file by adding define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);.
Themes can register “post thumbnails” which allow them to attach an image to the post, especially useful for magazine-style themes.
A new commentmeta table that allows arbitrary key/value pairs to be attached to comments, just like posts, so you can now expand greatly what you can do in the comment framework.
Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support so you can juggle more types than just post, page, and attachment. (More of this planned for 3.0.)
You can set custom theme directories, so a plugin can register a theme to be bundled with it or you can have multiple shared theme directories on your server.
We’ve upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing and Simplepie.
Sidebars can now have descriptions so it’s more obvious what and where they do what they do.
Specify category templates not just by ID, like before, but by slug, which will make it easier for theme developers to do custom things with categories — like post types!
Registration and profiles are now extensible to allow you to collect things more easily, like a user’s Twitter account or any other fields you can imagine.
The XML-RPC API has been extended to allow changing the user registration option. We fixed some Atom API attachment issues.
Create custom galleries with the new include and exclude attributes that allow you to pull attachments from any post, not just the current one.
When you’re editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to that line after you save. (Thank goodness!!!)
The Press This bookmarklet has been improved and is faster than ever; give it a try for on-the-fly blogging from wherever you are on the internet.
Custom taxonomies are now included in the WXR export file and imported correctly.
Better hooks and filters for excerpts, smilies, HTTP requests, user profiles, author links, taxonomies, SSL support, tag clouds, query_posts and WP_Query

Complete features can be found here.

So far as I am concerned, the most important addition is the number 1.

Having said that, there are some changes which I don’t like one of which is the Widgets managements. I am very comfortable with the Widgets management style at Wordpress 2.8+. Any change from this style will make me think twice to upgrade.

If you want to know the preview or the live demo of wp 2.9 before making sure to upgrade, have a look at your wordpress.com blog first. Since wordpress.com is the live demo of any new wordpress release.

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Comment by arief

2009-12-21 01:37:46

Nice posting Boss, thank you.

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Comment by Rock

2009-12-21 01:47:53

Makasih infonya mas Fatih…

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Comment by LL

2009-12-21 01:48:43

Nice post… thanks

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2009-12-21 11:42:06

In addition, WordPress.com utilizes the same WordPress software which you can download at WordPress.org. With WordPress.com the hosting and managing of the software is taken care of by the team here at Automattic. With WordPress.org you need to install the software on your own server or with a 3rd party provider.

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