Posts Tagged ‘wp’

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released

And doesn’t it look fantastic.

WordPress 3.0 has some features that have been in high demand for some time, and that theme developers have had to muddle their way around when using WordPress as a project’s CMS. Namely:

Custom backgrounds & headers (no more custom fields and php wizardry needed)
Shortlinks (our tweets thank you)
Menus (I can’t tell you how exited I am to retire the rather massive PHP function I use to do this now)
Custom Post types

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WordPress 2.5: The Next Generation

The latest release of WordPress has just hit the net, offering some significant design changes and a boatload of new features. As mentioned in my previous post on the site upgrade, I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 RC since its release mid-March. The first release candidate went to RC2 and on to a stable version in just two short weeks – that’s damn impressive. Some of the key new features include: