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Great New Features in WordPress 2.3

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Blogging Strategy

Wordpress 2.3Well it’s out, WordPress 2.3 has hit the internet and it packs a few great new features along with internal code cleanup and bug squashing. Here are a few of the highlights to the release.

1) Advanced Editor
The WYSIWYG editor evolves and now includes eleven new ‘advanced’ functions. Just hit the little colored squares icon on the right of the main toolbar and you’ll get the additional buttons.

WYSIWYG WordPress 2.3

Included are:
Format dropdown for header tags.
Underline
Align Full
Text Color
Paste as plain text.
Paste from Word. Fixing my previous complaint.
Clear Formatting.
Clean Up Code. OMG I think I’m in love.
Special characters.
Undo and Redo.

2) Tagging
Ultimate Tag Warrior is no longer needed now that WordPress will do tagging. Actually, Ultimate Tag Warrior had many more features so I guess it can’t be ruled out all together. But the new tagging functionality is nice. I can see people getting confused with tags and categories now as they are very similar.

A nice touch is the ability for Wordpess’ tagging system to import tags from other plugins. The WordPress team was really thinking on this one.

3) Auto Updates
If a plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, or if it ties into the new API, it’ll now check for updates automatically and notify you on the plugins page. No more wondering which plugins are out of date. WordPress as a whole should do the same thing.

4) Canonical URLs
This is a fancy way of saying they fixed a lot of possible URL issues. From www vs non-www URLs to automatically setting up redirects for when a user changes a post slug.

It even says that WordPress will now redirect URLs that get cut off in emails to the correct post. This means that if someone types in most of your URL, but is missing part of it, WordPress will find the best match and display that. It’s very user friendly but not necessarily search friendly as it can cause duplicate content issues.

Example:
Original: http://www.site.com/blog/this-is-my-post/
Cutoff URL: http://www.site.com/blog/this-is-m

Now the cutoff URL will show the same content without redirecting to the correct URL. I’m sure someone will fix this pretty soon.

There are other new features in WordPress 2.3 too, just not as noticeable to the user. Th is a great update to already amazing software package. Just be sure that your plugins are all 2.3 compatible before upgrading to ensure you have the best experience possible.

About Lee Odden

@LeeOdden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing and editor of TopRank's B2B Marketing Blog. Cited for his expertise by The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, he's the author of the book Optimize and presents internationally on B2B marketing topics including content, search, social media and influencer marketing. When not at conferences, consulting, or working with his talented team, he's likely running, traveling or cooking up something new.

Comments

  1. Rose says

    October 4, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    I have not updated yet. I think I’ll wait. 😉

    FYI- Love your theme

  2. Mike says

    October 11, 2007 at 7:41 am

    Instant upgrade worked perfectly :D.
    Its a brill upgrade though all the new features, can delete a lot of plugins now.

  3. Thomas McMahon says

    October 11, 2007 at 7:44 am

    From what I hear, 2.4 will be even better. 🙂

  4. Mike says

    October 18, 2007 at 4:10 am

    3) Auto Updates
    If a plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, or if it ties into the new API, it’ll now check for updates automatically and notify you on the plugins page. No more wondering which plugins are out of date. WordPress as a whole should do the same thing.

    How do you go about using this, I have a number of plugins out of date, how do I do about having them automatically updated?

  5. Thomas McMahon says

    October 18, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Yea, after a bit of research, it’s not really automatic updates. It’s automatic update checking. You still have to manually download an install them. Sad but true.

  6. Mike says

    October 19, 2007 at 3:33 am

    Oh right, well I did some searching in the wordpress database and found this http://henning.imaginemore.de/pluginstaller/
    Can install a plugin without uploading via ftp, and you can update them with 1 click of a button.

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