The popular blog tool and publishing platform, WordPress is now available in version 3.0. The WordPress team named it as WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” and it is in fact “the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors”. Indeed, version 3.0 has introduced several major changes/additions to the platform and here are 5 important ones that you need to know.
With the merger, users who want to run a blogging network (with multiple blogs) are no longer required to install the seperate WPMU package as the code has now been integrated with the core WP package. This integration means that it is now easier than ever for existing WordPress users to add additional blogs under the same installation without having to install a completely seperate instance of WordPress MU. More info on this feature here.
Finally! The dull and old looking Kubrick theme is no longer made as WordPress default theme. Instead, a new theme called “TwentyTen” has been included. This new theme also comes with custom header function for you to change the default header image.
This new version also allows you to create custom menus that can take the form of a selection of content you choose. You can in fact develop menus that consist of tags, categories, pages and several other forms of link with WordPress itself! So no more hassle to manually change the menu!
WordPress 3.0 lets you update the WordPress core, your custom plugins and themes all in one place. The new unified “Updates” section allows you to easily and quickly find any third-party plugins or themes that need updating! What makes it more exciting is that, Maintenance Mode is automatically enabled during the update process. So never mind if you forgot to turn it on as happened prior to 3.0
I love this feature the most! In the previous version, you can only add posts and pages! In WordPress 3.0, you can create more post types by adding customised post types to the functions.php file. You can try a portfolio example here. Quite simply, this means that WordPress is more like a CMS now and less hassle to deal with custom fields.
So, it can be said that WordPress 3.0 has given more flexibility and customization to both bloggers and developers. Go download or upgrade to WordPress 3.0 and experience the changes!
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I'm still using WP 2.9 in my other blog. Is this blog running on the latest version? Is it stable?
Hi Elisha, yes, this blog is running 3.0. It's stable and love the new features.
I think I should upgrade mine too. Hope nothing goes wrong during the upgrading process.
In terms of customization, which one is better? Blogger or Wordpress? coz i like to customize blog :)
Self-hosted Wordpress allows more customisation.
One more thing, can i add custom java scripts into WP just like Blogger? or i need to buy self-hosted WP in order to do that?
Free version at Wordpress.com doesn't allow you to edit the template but you can add in Javascripts via its widgets. Of course, self-hosted WP gives full customization on that.
Thanks for the info..
Usefull infos bro, thanks. I wanted to upgrade my blog (my photoblog) to 3.0 but I still in doubt, I'm afraid it will have some issues with my current theme and my plugins.
Love the new Wordpress too!! The team has done a good job on version 3.0
Sound good...