Wordpress 2.2 Released - Go Getz it

Posted by Hyder on May 16th, 2007

After a slight delay in the new release, Wordpress 2.2 is finally here. Here are the biggest features mentioned on the development blog:

WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

Also, the UI and accessibility has been improved. For developers who know what I’m saying when the XML-RPC API’s have a new set that allow for editing pages, setting categories and much more then you can have a lot of fun with it. Me, I just like to blog.

This is their first release under the 4 month major cycle release. So expect Wordpress to get better around 3 times a year.

Also, they are having a WordCamp for those that can make it to San Francisco from July 21-22.

I think I might actually upgrade my blog to the latest version now. Go Getz it!

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