The folks over at Wordpress release Wordpress 2.1 nicknamed “Ellaâ€. With a host of new features starting from autosave to a whole lot more: * Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. * Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. * The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs. * Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking. * New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google. * You can set any “page†to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system. * Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb. * Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly. * Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project. * More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly. * Pages can now be drafts, or private. * Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent. * The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background. * Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10. * Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages. * The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio. * A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled. For the developer side it should make things easier with the following new features: * Psuedo-cron functionality let’s you schedule events much like cron. * Users admin can now comfortably handle hundreds of thousands of users. * The new WP_Error class cleans up how we do error reporting and handling. * The javascript loader makes it easier for plugins to include rich functionality. * Tons of new hooks and APIs. * We’ve started to fill out our code inline documentation. * Image and thumbnail API allows for richer media plugins. * Custom header, color picker, and image cropping framework. The official post is here. What are you waiting for go update! Thank you
I just installed it on a dev site and it's SO sweet. I've been waiting for some of these great features for a while now.
I agree, it's really great. I've been experimenting with it for the past 2 weeks or so and have not had a single problem.
Did any plugins break for you? I heard there were some major (a good thing!) changes in the database code that could potentially break some old code. Keep us up to date - I think I will wait a week or two before I try and update.
I only use 3 plugins ,hence it doesn't matter. But the upgrade process is a bit too complex,I'm gonna do a fresh installation!
Awesome. I hope next we have a "click-once" deployment for upgrading that beast. I hate doing the whole disable plugins, change your name to fred, do this do that and then upgrade process.
Just got this baby installed at www.justinkhoury.com, and WOW. The administrator back end has been improved so much. Thanks everyone at WP
I have Wordpress 2.06 installed and wanna install Wordpress 2.1. How shld i do that? Will I loose all my posts? http://idiotshouse.info - Here is the blog. Is it possible to upgrade without loosing posts?
Download v. 2.1 and look at the readme file. You can upgrade without losing anything. Everything data wise like posts is stored in the mysql. Thank You