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Upgrading to WordPress 2.2

by | Wednesday, 16th May 2007 | 4 Comments | Share

WordPress development team has today announced the release of the latest version WordPress 2.2.

We will be updating this blog tonight to make use of the latest version, so you may see some glitches around midnight PST. The Better Comments Manager plugin will still be available for download though.

Here are the list of new features added in this release of WordPress.

  • 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.

Enjoy the latest upgrade from WordPress team

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  1. Pufone on May 19th, 2007 at 4:13 am #

    I have written an easy to follow, step by step guide with images on how to upgrade to WordPress 2.2.

  2. keith on May 19th, 2007 at 6:34 am #

    Thanks Pufone :)

  3. pelf on May 19th, 2007 at 9:46 pm #

    Is Techie-Buzz currently powered by WP 2.2? Because mine is, but I found that the Top Commentator plug-in wasn’t compatible (but I see that yours is!) :)

  4. keith on May 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am #

    hey pelf,

    Yes it is currently running on WordPress 2.2

    Keith