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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. Thanks Wordpress by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, anything that helps create more blogs is a good thing. There are still literally dozens of housewives out there *NOT* letting us know that Jeremy pooped in his potty for the first time today.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Thanks Wordpress by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, I've met many tools who control people. Here is a picture of one of them.

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      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    2. Re:Thanks Wordpress by Abcd1234 · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    3. Re:Thanks Wordpress by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now, now, that's no way to talk in front of Jeremy.

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      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    4. Re:Thanks Wordpress by ale_ryu · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You guys do have a point, but it's not always like that. I installed wordpress last week for the first time and I find it awesome. My blog is not actually about what happens to me or my dog, I use it as an online curriculum, I have only made a single post (not much free time right now) but it's an interesting way to promote yourself when you're a freelance developer. You can show your work and past experiences in an informal yet acceptable way. Of course there's always going to be one useful blog for every 1298389238 blogs about pets and babies and funny youtube videos,but the whole internet is like that, not just the blogs.

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      Check out my blog!
    5. Re:Thanks Wordpress by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Informative

      No kidding! All blogs are worthless. AMIRITE??

    6. Re:Thanks Wordpress by steelfood · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I think that looks more like a person controlling tools to me.

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      "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
  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 mitchell_pgh · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I clicked one bottom and it updated. Everything seems to be working normally.

      What fun is this ;)

    3. 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)

    4. Re:The upgrade process was painless by Knara · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Sounds like your issue is with plugins, not with Wordpress.

    5. Re:The upgrade process was painless by i_ate_god · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Sounds like your issue is with plugins, not with Wordpress.

      It sounds like both the plugins, wordpress, and the admin himself.

      Wordpress should not mess with the API without warning. That warning should come in the form of depreciated functions in one version, removal one or two versions after.

      The plugins might take advantage of undocumented APIs, or perform some hacks to accomplish a task.

      The admin should always read the changelog.

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      I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
  3. You're Absolutely Right by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    How easy it is to implement a blog is always a sure indicator of that blog's content quality. I have found that the blogs which are hard-coded from scratch using vi atop LAMP hacked onto a toaster oven are inevitably post-modern literary masterpieces.

    Software developers and computer hobbyists inevitably make the best writers, don't you agree?

  4. Re:Good to hear by jalefkowit · · Score: 2, Funny

    The more I use Wordpress the more I like it.

    Don't worry! That is a well understood condition.

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    Read my blog.

  5. 3.0, the XIIIth by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release "

    If only there were some way of counting major releases, such that one could tell how many there were, and by extension, know how many versions had been released prior...

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    You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
  6. Re:Beyond the Blog by joh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WP has long been the way to go if you just want to have a site with a few pages and something like a news page. It's very much like a blog turned on its head then but, hey. Much easier and quicker to handle and to maintain than hand-crafted HTML or a full-blown CMS. It's also easy to extend and to modify.

    WP has a bad reputation but for many things it sits just in the right place between being a hack and an organized system.

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

    I can understand why, when your homepage produces this.

  8. Missing Features by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They might have fixed a lot but it's a glaring fault not to have ajax comment support built into the default theme or the core. In fact I have yet to locate a single ajax comment plugin that still works.

    We live in a a Facebook world where no one expects a page load to post a comment. Not even slashdot. Hope that gets sorted soon.

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

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

  9. Since no one has asked yet... by Coppit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have to ask: Is it no longer a steaming pile of security holes? Seriously, most people I know have given up blogs and moved to Facebook or some hosted blogging service to get their message out. After getting hacked a couple of times I've put it in the same category as PHPNuke -- too much trouble to be worth it to anyone for whom it's not their job.

  10. 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!