Eah, the new wordpress version, WordPress 2.1 has come just about a week after the release of version 2.0.7. Codenamed Ella, the name comes from the famous jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald. Ive upgraded one of my wordpress blogs to the new version but having Ajax function problem here and there so I decided to suspend the upgrade for Tech-Scope.com. It does work on other peoples blog so your result may be vary from what Ive got. Here are the highlights of the new features that surely going to make you chill if youre the blogging geek in the house.
Admin-panel
Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between wordpress blogs.
Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
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.
Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from mysql went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
Pages can now be drafts, or private.
Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.