However, WordPress 2.0 was revolutionary in many ways.  Think back to WordPress 2.0 and how that changed WordPress as we knew it at the time. Some of those changes we now take for granted included:

• Completely Redesigned Backend
• Included Spam and Backup Plugins
• Inline Uploading
• Faster Posting
• Post Preview
• User Roles labelled
• Header Customization

WordPress 2.0 certainly set us on the path to the WordPress we know and love today.  Congratulations 2.0 on a terrific service life – rest in peace “Duke”.

Time For An Upgrade?

What does this mean for you as an individual blogger, website developer or site admin?  Well the first thing it means in my opinion is that you should get upgraded to the latest and greatest version of WordPress which is version 2.8.2 and was mentioned on this site about two weeks ago by Keith – WordPress 2.8.2 Security Update.

Although it was published to fix a XSS vulnerability it has been out in the blogosphere for long enough to reveal any issues with the fix.  In fact for me it fixed an issue of posts not being published when they are scheduled ahead of time.  Plus I am a geek and like all my stuff to be the most up to date they can be

What about you though? Have you updated to the latest version of WordPress? Have you made the jump to version 2.8 at least?  What keeps you from making that leap to the latest version of WordPress?

• Paged Comment Editing
  By default, “Manage Comments” only list the 20 last comments. What if you were on offline holidays for a month and have a blog that receives quite a few feedback ? This plugin allows browsing of older comments with paging through them.
• Cat 2 Tag
  If you create a lot of categories, this plugin makes selection easier when writing a post : a handy “tag cloud” avoids cumbersome scrolling through a long category list. There is also a fancy “suggest category” feature that proposes categories as you type them.
• WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu
  The lazy and the productive will love it : you can go from any to any admin page without having to stop by the “top level” page first. For instance, no more loading “Manage” first , and then “Comments”, since all admin links are available in a CSS driven drop down menu (demo). Admin menu the way it was meant to be (and even compatible with Tiger Admin)
• Tiger Admin
  While adding no particular feature, this plugin completely revamp the admin part of your blog by heavily tweaking the CSS, giving your admin pages a brand new look (for Safari, Camino and Firefox only)

If you are using a plugin that adds functionnalities or redesigns the admin interface, feel free to pimp it in the comments. Also, I advise plugin authors to update their plugin descriptions over at WP-Plugins.net once the administration pages will include “WordPress 2.0″ in the compatibility check list.