WordPress 2.1
February 11th, 2007 Da Vinci
I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 today, mostly motivated by the editor updates. The upgrade itself was painless and all of the plugins seem to be working fine. The only problem was that embedded YouTube videos didn’t work. This was a good opportunity to test the new editor and I was able to fix the videos by getting the embed code from YouTube and replacing the code in the posts using the new “code” view of the editor. The new editor is a bit better than the old one, but I like the improved image handling. The autosave is also great. Here are some of the key features
Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
New tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
Completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
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.
Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
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.
The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
Have fun upgrading!
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