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WordPress 3.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the now-even-wordier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."

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  1. Re:Thanks Wordpress by Abcd1234 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, because god knows those are the only types of blogs in existence...

  2. The upgrade process was painless by asv108 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The automatic upgrade feature works really well. I painlessly upgraded from 2.x to 3.x through the admin interface. The only caveat is that the integrated update requires ftp/ftps. Bravo to the wordpress team for continually improving a great product.

    1. Re:The upgrade process was painless by Mr.+DOS · · Score: 2, Informative

      The only caveat is that the integrated update requires ftp/ftps.

      Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.

    2. Re:The upgrade process was painless by lenova · · Score: 5, Informative

      Supposedly, if you have the permissions set correctly on the WordPress files (no, I can't figure it out either, although it did happen once by magic when I used an automated installer), the autoupdater doesn't even need this.

      If you have access to your wp-config.php file, you can enable the autoupdater without FTP by adding this line:

      define('FS_METHOD','direct');

      WordPress will now update directly without requiring FTP access.

      (Source: Random Tech Solutions)

  3. Re:Malformed HTML by Milkyfresh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can understand why, when your homepage produces this.

  4. Re:Thanks Wordpress by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Informative

    No kidding! All blogs are worthless. AMIRITE??

  5. Re:Missing Features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Disqus comment system plugin works perfectly fine for me...

  6. Good release for users, even better for developers by Demetris · · Score: 2, Informative

    3.0 is a good release for end-users, and it would be a good release even without the eye-catching additions. For developers and theme makers it is even better, because it makes their jobs easier. It continues to improve under the hood. And it still has areas where there is much room for improvement. (A part I do not particularly enjoy is its cluttered interface, but at least you can customize and unclutter it.)

    I published a detailed write-up on what WordPress 3.0 brings for end-users and for developers:

    http://op111.net/76 -- WordPress 3.0: What is new

    Hope you find it useful!