Wordpress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. Wordpress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.
I wanted to clear up the difference between categories and tags in Wordpress, something I find myself explaining very often to clients new to the Wordpress publshing platform. Wordpress Categories are your table of contents. Wordpress Tags are your index words, think of a book metaphor;
A million downloads of 2.9 is astonishing, and less so is the immediate release of version 2.9.1 fixing a handful of minor bugs and one annoying one where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. Check out the development blog for full details.
Wordpress 2.9 with new image edit, easy video integration and trash.
Wordpress has released version 2.9 (Carmen) keeping with Wordpress tradition it is named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, Wordpress 2.9 has all new image editor including on-the-fly- cropping, easy video integration and a trash button (exciting), full release info on the product blog.
Wordpress has released 2.8.6, according to the Wordpress Blog the release will fix two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
