Upgrade To WordPress 2.2

May 20th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

If you missed the news, WordPress 2.2 is now out. The latest release contains dozens of bug fixes and several new features. Overall the service has been tidied up and made much more intuitive to use and friendly. I’ve just upgraded from 2.1 with no problems at all.

New features include:

  • WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
  • Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
  • A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
  • Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
  • We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
  • Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
  • We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Pufone on 28 May 2007:

    Along with the bug fixes, WordPress 2.2 brings new bugs to the table: wp_mail removes the Content-Type, you can’t remove widgets in Firefox and all widgets are used by default… etc. You can check the bug list at trac.wordpress.org
    The official install guide is quite hard to understand so i decided to write a tutorial with pictures about how to upgrade to wordpress 2.2 and i allso describe the compatibility issues on widgets.

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    Pingback by Please Let Me Know If You Find A Problem... - Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com - (formerly Healthy WebDesign) on 31 May 2007:

    [...] quite happy with the upgrade. I have a couple of small hiccups and found a plugin that I couldn’t get to work. Luckily it [...]

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