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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: 5, Informative

      No kidding! All blogs are worthless. AMIRITE??

  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. 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. 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!
  5. 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.