Topic Wordpress 2.1 "Ella" just released

-HAL-

Version 2.1 of the popular (and pretty good) Wordpress Blogging Tool has just been released.

Many new and great features have been added, so I'm looking forward to trying this one now.

Here are some of the new features:

• 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.
• 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.
• Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
• Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.

Wordpress 2.1 release notes:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/

Download link:
http://wordpress.org/download/

Donkey

I might just have to mess around with this, I always had an idea for an entertainment style blog.....

stocktrading101

Also to add to -Hal-, the support area can be found here,

http://wordpress.org/support/

Which is awesome community support. I have used it tons of times and have found good success. My only advice is to make sure you place your posts in the right areas and tag them correctly. This will be a TON with getting a speed quick response. Title is very important as well.

Great overall though, I am a huge Wordpres supporter!

Matt Mullenweg who is the founder was recently on with Startup Studio, thought it was a good listen,

http://www.startupstudio.com/

francesc

Finally...I was waiting for this for quite some time...I haven't worked on my blog since early January this year...so I didn't know that a new version was released...I'm going to download it and resume working on my blog.

SageMother

Well I just downloaded it but will have to set aside the time to really explore it. I love new things to play with.