The latest version of Wordpress became available last night, and it looks to be a pretty major release.

Probably the biggest feature in it is that it supports tags without any additional plugins required. I had been planning on writing an article on Ultimate Tag Warrior, the tagging plugin I’ve been using, but its author retired it a while back because of the new tagging support upcoming in Wordpress 2.3. The new release supports importing tag info from several previous tagging plugins.

The new release will also tell you when there are updates available to Wordpress or the plugins you’re using.

It fully supports Atom 1.0 for publishing as well as subscriptions.

It uses a new version of jQuery which they say is “800% faster”.

It has many, many bugs fixed, and a lot more smaller features than I’ve listed here.

I haven’t upgraded yet - I depended heavily on Ultimate Tag Warrior, so I’m going to take my time doing my upgrade since I may need to change my themes if some of the tagging functions I used have gone missing.

Via: WordPress › Blog » Preparing for 2.3

Via: WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.3
[tags]wordpress, ultimate tag warrior, tags, jquery, atom, update[/tags]

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