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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 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:Thanks Wordpress by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Informative

    No kidding! All blogs are worthless. AMIRITE??

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

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