WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)
Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click.
Merging the standalone WordPress with WordPress MU (Multi User) you can now run one site or thousands from a single WordPress installation. Don’t believe it? It is the same setup which WordPress.com has been using, and they just recently announced that hosted blogs have created more than 200,000,000 posts. Yup, that was done with WordPress MU.
The admin section now has a lighter interface. Plugins can be upgraded in batch, no more single plugin upgrades. There is also contextual help on each screen.
For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.
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When I tried to “upgrade automatically” the first time, I got a “memory error” so I deactivated most of my plug ins and was able to upgrade automatically to WordPress 3.0 then I activated back those plug ins.
FYI.
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I had a memory error on mine as well, but I did some tweaking to one of the files and it works perfectly
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What tweak did you do Karen?
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I will always update on my lower traffic/income blogs first to make sure there’s no issues with any plugins. i have one site that has every plugin i use on all my other sites and more, so that’s the one i typically use to test.
That’s a good idea Stag.
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I only write for a WordPress blog (I don’t do any of the tweaking myself) but I don’t like how the interchanged the “categories” window with the”post tags” window. I know, very minor, it’s just that when you’ve gotten used to how things were before it’s difficult to try and adapt to the new one.
We upgraded and the upgrade was relatively painless. We had a minor glitch with our Thesis theme, but folks had already posted a fix for it by the time I encountered it. Keeping fingers crossed everything works out ok.
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Upgraded a couple of blogs, and so far, so good. In fact, I didn’t “see” any major changes in the admin interface – and that’s a good thing! Seamless transition for me.
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How easy it is to implement a blog is always a sure indicator of that blog’s content quality. I have found that the blogs which are hard-coded from scratch using vi atop LAMP hacked onto a toaster oven are inevitably post-modern literary masterpieces.
I updated to WordPress 3.0 the other day and found my bookmarks plugin stopped working! I had to deactivate and reactivate it to fix the problem. My TweetMeme button has gone weird also, currently trying to sort it out..
I’ve not had the time to play around with the new features yet, but from what I’ve read, they sound great! The creation of menus is something I’ve been looking forward to. I thought they were going to bring out ‘custom post types’ but I’ve not seen this…
One thing I’m not keen on is the lighter interface! I preferred it when there were darker shades and better contrast. Now it’s all too faded and pale looking for me. I think there should be an option to change the colour of the admin interface
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This a great advancement in my knowledge about wordpress themes. you have not talked about the cost factors. Are these free for a person like me?
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I would like to know more about the performance. How about the cpu usage?? I am planning to switch beacuse of that, the CPU usage is annoying reaching 50-80% when I work in the admin interface using almost ZERO plugins.
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We welcome wordpress 3.0 as it have a lot of advancements than the previous release of wordPress.
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