Are You Blogging Your Way Past Frequent Upgrades? I Don’t Blame You!
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform in use today – especially for self hosted blogs. If I do have an issue with the software it is the constant need to update or upgrade. It seems that every month there is an upgrade or update that needs to be done. Do you update every time you’re prompted? No – I don’t blame you.
This past weekend saw the release of the next version of WordPress – we are now at 2.9 – and I must admit to being impressed with some of the new features. Whilst I do have a complaint about the number of updates and upgrades each year, it is hard to fault the new features that are being added all the time. Version 2.9 has some nifty features that will make blogging a little easier and a little quicker. Some of these features include:
Photo Editor - this is only a basic editor and whilst it can do resizing, anyone with basic knowledge of html can resize images. What I do find convenient is the ability to crop images – now that will come in handy.
Trash Can – have you ever deleted a post by mistake? The new post trash can will save deleted posts for 30 days. If you change your mind you can open the trash can and restore the deleted post.
Video Embedding – should I say, simple video embedding. With this new feature you won’t need all the embedding code you once used, all you need now is the URL of the video – video embedding tool will do the rest.
Duplicate Content – we have spoken about the rel=”canonical” tag before – WordPress 2.9 now includes this tag in the page header to help solve duplicate content issues
Database Repairing – having an automatic database repair tool will be handy for those that don’t like getting their hands dirty. Those that do like getting their hands dirty probably won’t like the tool since they often have a mistrust of anything automated. Keeping your database healthy is one way of ensuring your pages load relatively quickly. A database that is full of junk only serves to slow down your page load times.
Is it worthwhile upgrading to the new version? It’s up to you. If those new features sound handy then by all means upgrade. My preference is to wait a little to see how the dust settles. Nine times out of ten a new version is followed up in a week or two by a security issue fix – wait for that to arrive and you should have a safe and stable version to work with.
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