Well it’s out. WordPress 3.0 is here and packed with a ton of exciting new features.
And I’m happy to say that our SmallBiz WordPress Theme works perfectly on it.
We’ve been testing all through the betas and the release candidates. We were even at WordCamp last month in San Francisco planning out which of the cool new features we can take advantage of in our SmallBiz theme.
New Feature Highlights
Some of my favorite WordPress 3.0 features are:
- Run multiple blogs from one WordPress install. WordPress Mu is part of the core WordPress code now.
- Customizable menus are now part of the core, instead of being dependent on themes
- New default theme – Twenty Ten
- Choose your username and password during the install, instead of the default admin userid. This makes for a more secure default installation since hackers won’t have a default admin userid to depend on
- Custom background color is choose-able with a visual color picker
- Custom post types allow you to make WordPress even more like a content management system. You can define different types of posts (video, audio, product, etc.) and have your theme display each differently
A Bumpy Ride
This is a huge release! In fact, there is so much in here that we ran into a lot of problems during testing. Thomas, (my lead developer) went through a lot of antacids on this one! In fact, we didn’t expect them to ship yet, because of the amount of changes in each RC.
You see, in addition to testing for compatibility, Thomas has been working hard to build in some killer new features based on WordPress 3.0. Stay tuned – we’ll be ready to ship within the next few days!
Watch the Video
Take a look at this tour of WordPress 3.0. I think you’ll like it!
What do you think – are you going to upgrade?
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Me first! I can’t wait to get started – thanks for doing the heavy lifting with all that testing!
Like It! Looking forward to the killer new features your building. Thanks for the great review.
Hey Don!
I’ve recently installed Wordpress 3.0 and noticed that the URL doesn’t include the www prefix before the domain name. The question is does Wordpress do this by default and is the www even necessary in the domain name?
@a.g. – It was probably your hosting provider. Either way works, as long as you are consistent. For example, both http://www.domain.com and domain.com should resolve to the same exact thing – in your case domain.com. As long as that is happening, you are good.
You’ll also notice that WordPress is now adding the “canonical” tag to your pages to tell Google which one to pay attention to. This is just another way of telling Google that http://www.domain.com and domain.com are the same page, don’t treat them as two separate pages.