Many different sites and blogs have documented what they thought were their most desired features in WordPress 2.3. Since I am as excited about this release as I was about WordPress 2.0 (I consider 2.0 to be a significant milestone), I am collating them here with each discussed feature bulleted under each of the links.
- Design Adaptations
- Update Alerts for WordPress
- Inherent Tag Support
- More SEO Friendliness, better URI redirection
- Ryans’ Blog
- Aiming for Independence
- Tagging
- Adding new tags to your own theme
- Adding a tag cloud
- More on Tagging in themes and tag importers from Small Potato
- UTW Importer Version 3
- Template tags for Tags (yes, I know)
- Michael’s Blog (mdwaffe)
- Sam Ruby
- Plugin update notification
- Directly from WordPress Plugin Directory
- Better, faster, quicker, safer
- Faster javascript and wp-admin code and styles
I had been meaning to start a companion blog for some time and Beta 3 was my chance to get it up and running. If there are any other sites or blogs that discuss WordPress 2.3 in detail, please leave a comment or contact me and I will add them to the list.
Some more.
Nazgul on WordPress:
Importer Plugins
Unfiltered upload
This is a nice summary of whoever is blogging about WordPress 2.3. Except Ryan, not many others were talking about it until now outside of mailing lists and forums(and Trac).
I will link to this post (and to lorelle’s podcast) in my blog entry:
What’s New in WordPress 2.3
It would be nice to see soon:
1. Better pagination in posts when using SEO Urls – now additional post pages address looks like this: domain.com/post-title/2/, when it should be: domain.com/post-title-page-2/
2. Inherent internal link managment system – this should be independent of the Permalinks
Also don’t forget to update the Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.3
I’m not brave enough to try the beta but I can’t wait for 2.3. Improved SEO is certainly well overdue.
I’ve added a short guide on how to create a tag index amongst other tagging-related things.