WordPress 2.3 released
The latest version of WordPress , WordPress 2.3 codenamed “Dexter” is out now . This release features some new and exciting features .The release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dextor Gordon. Here are the new features of this release .
- Native tagging support: It allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. Importers for plugins such as UTW , Bunny’s technorati tag etc are also included .
- The new update notificationlets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available.
- The new canonical URLs feature does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more.
- The new pending reviewfeature isgreat for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft .
- All new and advanced WYSIWYG editor
The new features look great . I will wait sometime before upgrading . What about you ?
Just like you, I’ll wait a bit and see how it works out.
I am still with 2.1.3 , tried Insta upgrade & techie-buzz’s WPupgrade plugin ,both never worked for me
but about 2.3 initial reviews are not good so wait is better .
it is better to wait, some plugins are not compatible with this release
lol…. after reading Rahuls’ comment that Insta upgrade didn’t work – I just tried and saw if it worked and it did!
lol I didn’t want to upgrade and now I’ve the latest version of WP as read this post. Gotta go and see what’s working and what’s not.
For those who want save a piece of SEO for their blog
THe answer is “Not to upgrade”
I too will wait for some time, between I’ll update my demo blog and see the features.
Seems like everyone is going to wait a bit.
@Ashwin
Have you faced any problems so far .
@Dj
Can you clarify your point in detail
@Nirmal
Good idea , i will try it out in my offline installation first
No issues but I won’t recommend this to anyone as yet. Some small small annoyances are still present.
I’m also going to wait a little while for the bugs to be straightened out.
i am also gonna wait before upgrade..
and do the WYSIWUG editor has colouring option this time?