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Wordpress
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007The WordPress team recently announced a new version of Word Press Ella. In that last few weeks the versions were changing fast and furious as small bug fixes were done for security holes. Now we have a whole other version which looks just great.
I have added the new version to a test server and am currently testing it out locally before upgrading sites to the new version. I found a couple of bugs but it seems that already there is a 2.1 available so I will be upgrading to that to see if they were fixed.
The new version has a number of great features, the first thing you notice is the cleaner Dashboard and menu bar. Some of the other features which will be of great help are:
- Spell check on the WYSIWYG
- Auto Save
- Ability to save Pages as drafts - previouse editions you could only save posts
- A tabbed editor so you can easily switch from HTML to WYSIWYG
- Upload manager area so you can manage photos, video and audio better in one place
- Blogroll now supports Sub Categories
These are just some of my favorites, read the rest on the site at WordPress Ella
The next step is to test the new version with the various plugs-ins we use to make sure everything works as it should, then we can start to use the new version and upgrade those on the old version.
