Written on September 20th, 2007 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse
WordPress 2.3 – What You Need to Know….
With WordPress 2.3 set to be released on Monday – Aaron Brazell has put together another of his ‘10 Things You Need to Know…’ posts introducing WordPress users to the new features that this next version includes.
WP 2.3 includes Tags, Update Notifications, Canonical Redirection plus lots more.
Read Aaron’s introduction to the new version at 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3.
What do you like the look of in WP 2.3? What would you like to see them add next?
14 Responses to “WordPress 2.3 – What You Need to Know….” - Add Yours
Nick's Marketing Tips
September 20th, 2007 10:07 pm
Thanks for posting this. I can’t wait to download the new wordpress on Monday.
I think the “$wpdb->prepare()” is a great idea though it won’t be available until 2.4.
The pluggable dashboard will be nice!
Dennis Schipper
September 20th, 2007 10:12 pm
Tags and Canonical Redirection are the most useful for most bloggers, especially the redirection improvements will help most people with their SEO.
Rich Gilchrest
September 20th, 2007 10:46 pm
I wrote a tutorial for adding tag support to themes here:
http://richgilchrest.com/how-to-add-wordpress-23-tags-to-your-current-theme/
It’s pretty easy once you get the PHP files opened in a text editor. No need to wait for your theme designer to add them.
Anne Helmond
September 20th, 2007 10:50 pm
My next preferred addition, or should I say removal, would be the elimination of the nofollow tag on comments.
Lisa Marie Mary
September 20th, 2007 10:54 pm
Oh, I’m so nervous – but, so excited! My Bookworm blog is actually still on 2.0.2, isn’t that sad? I’m just scared to upgrade it, as it is hosted through Yahoo, and things just seem to work differently hosting through them. It’s been very tricky to work with. I have other blogs on 2.2.2 and just knowing the very helpful differences, I really want to upgrade Bookworm! I think the tags would be really great!
Deborah
September 20th, 2007 11:25 pm
I wish I was a techy!
Zuggu.com
September 20th, 2007 11:51 pm
@ Anne: there are lots of plugins that will do that for you. Do a google search for it an I am sure you will find them
Kabitzin
September 20th, 2007 11:52 pm
Anne, on your own blog, you can remove the no-follow tag with a plugin, such as the DoFollow plugin:
http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/
Also, there have been at least three tag manager plugins that have popped up already, so I can’t wait to see what people come up with once they have had a chance to play with the stable 2.3 release.
Anne Helmond
September 20th, 2007 11:55 pm
Thanks Zuggu & Kabitzin. I am absolutely aware of these plugins (and need to install one soon) but in my humble opinion the nofollow attribute has no value in spam protection and is therefor on my wishlist to be removed from the WordPress core.
Simonne
September 21st, 2007 12:55 am
Do you think they could add a feature to generate some great content in the days you are too lazy to write?
Chris Jacobson
September 21st, 2007 2:11 am
Whenever I need to upgrade WordPress is always a fun day! :)
Jenny
September 21st, 2007 3:42 pm
I let fantastico upgrade for me. Less fear that way. But I can’t wait till the official release comes out. I really wanna play with it.
Smart websites make money
September 21st, 2007 11:08 pm
I haven’t yet tested, I am a bit behind with my schedule so upgrading WordPress is not yet a priority
angel
September 24th, 2007 5:05 am
It makes some of my plugins stop working… :(
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