Wordpress V. 2.1 or Ella is Out!

diddy1 on Mon, 2007-01-22 17:00.

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On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.

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Thanks for that,

DianeV on Tue, 2007-01-23 04:59.

Thanks for that, diddy1.

<Sigh> In the past few weeks, I upgraded a number of blogs to 2.0.6, and then 2.0.7.

I guess this is just me, complaining. <grin>

updates

graywolf on Tue, 2007-01-23 05:33.

sheesh all this updating every week is getting to be a PIA

That's true, but ...

DianeV on Tue, 2007-01-23 05:37.

True, but take a look at this:

You can set any "page" to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.

Nice. It also comes bundled with an updated Akismet plugin.

I thought that one was

Nick Wilsdon on Tue, 2007-01-23 07:23.

I thought that one was interestingly OT:

New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.

LOL. I didn't know what to

DianeV on Tue, 2007-01-23 07:29.

LOL. I didn't know what to make of that. I guess there are some circumstances in which a blog owner might favor that, but I can't think of one.

Autosave makes sure you

grnidone on Tue, 2007-01-23 07:33.

Quote:

Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.

Hallalulah!

Exactly Diane, I wouldn't

Nick Wilsdon on Tue, 2007-01-23 07:42.

Exactly Diane, I wouldn't have thought there was a surge of feature requests for this one.

Maybe there's been a falling out ;)

That was funny, Nick. I

DianeV on Tue, 2007-01-23 07:55.

That was funny, Nick. I guess it's the way you phrased it. LOL

30 blogs

The Founder on Tue, 2007-01-23 09:05.

We have an agreement with many of our clients to keep their blogs up to par with the security patching.. what a pain in the rear...

Before you upgrade ...

DianeV on Tue, 2007-01-23 09:16.

I'd check what's going on in the WordPress forums. While some people aren't having problems, others are:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/101723?replies=21

I think this is a conspiracy

webprofessor on Tue, 2007-01-23 10:33.

I think this is a conspiracy to keep liberal webmasters busy during the State of the Union address in America.

My favorites:Much more

John Andrews on Tue, 2007-01-23 10:41.

My favorites:

Quote:

Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.

More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster.

The dashboard now loads instantly
A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

And for those with Upgrade headaches,

Quote:

Based on everything we’ve learned in the past 3 years of doing WordPress, we’ve decided to shift to a more frequent release schedule like Ubuntu, with major releases coming several times a year. So, for the first time in WordPress’ history, I have an answer to when the next version is coming out: April 23rd.

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