With an improved editor, image uploader, security features, and more. Nice polish added to already great blogging software. Some things included in the release are going to help my projects a real lot; stuff like the ability to have any page as a static front page, and blogroll structure allowing subcategories makes WordPress a true CMS and not just a blogging platform that can be hacked into a CMS.
I’m hoping that my favorite plugins will still work (I wont be upgrading any of my existing sites until I have checked). More on plugins is available here.
One more feature that is going to make the internet a much, much better place: spellcheck. Until now I have been using the Google toolbar to spellcheck my posts, but it consistently screwed up my formatting. I guess this is why so many bloggers don’t bother…
January 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Did you already install Ella? I had it running on a test site and found my most favorite plugin not working. It’s a plugin that searches not only postings but pages as well. Search Everything is the name. Also, while playing around with K2 I found some stuff not working of appearing. So I will wait. By the way: my brother still runs wp 1.5 on several sites without any problems.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Hi Al
I still run 1.5 on many sites, but my main ones (the ones that would hurt if they got hacked) I have made sure to keep up to date. WP1.5 is still a very good piece of software but there are security issues
January 30th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Oh boy, hm, I will consider an upgrade then. Instead of the search everything plugin I could use the google search bar on my site. Guess WP is working on a search everything built in their default theme. At least lots of people are asking for.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Yeah, you could use adsense for search in the same way as the SEO adsense theme does. I checked out your blog ~ couldn’t understand much of it! Maybe you have to do a post just for us English speakers!