The Cynic Says……

Wordpress 2.0 has been released and apparently makes an absolute TON of changes under the hood. Granted most of the changes we won’t see but it’ll apparently make it a lot easier on plugin developers to create new and better plugins for wordpress. Hmm… does this mean more must-have plugins? Needless to say I installed it and I’m VERY impressed. It now includes a really nice WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor for your posts (it’s even resizable!!) along with a nice box for uploading files and inserting them in posts. Previously inserting pictures in posts was a major major pain in the ass. So much so that I never even bothered to do it via wordpress; I just uploaded them myself and copy/pasted the URL into my post. You can also add a new post category right from the post screen, which is really nice if you make a post that doesn’t really fit into your existing categories. Previously, you had to assign it to some category, go create the category you REALLY wanted it in then come back and edit the post in order to change the category. Way too many steps, all of which have been eliminated now. Seeing as how I just installed it, I haven’t really gotten a chance to check everything out but it looks like a huge upgrade from 1.5. It’s definitely worth the upgrade (mine went smoothly as usual, but your mileage may vary).

Here’s a decent roundup of the new features