Matt: WordPress 2.2 “Getz” has been released. Of course, “Getz” came from the Jazz musician Stan Getz. However the first thing that popped up in my head is actually this Hyundai’s little tinbox.
So what do we have?
- WordPress Widgets — Never going to use it as I don’t even have a sidebar here.
- Full Atom support — time to fix up my old code to support Atom publishing?
- New Blogger importer — again not very useful to me.
- Infinite comment stream — not useful, especially when Akismet is working.
- Speed optimizations — now we are talking. Any benchmark?
A bit more interesting for the developers. jQuery is now standard, which is pretty good. I am using jQuery for some of my other projects, and it is probably one of the most useful Javascript library out there. Hard-coding WP URL is also going to be useful to me, especially when you do staging with your WP installations.
I guess the question for now is — upgrade or not? It is bloody easy to upgrade a batch of sites, but not sure whether 2.2′s added complexity gives true usefulness to some of my fellow bloggers at FOCUSer.net.
WP Widget sounds like a good idea. even better if it can be deployed anywhere on the page …
is Atom replacing RSS these days?
been working on a hack that displays when clicking a user-created Page, it actually displays Posts belonging to a certain category … not sure why this isn’t allowed by default in WP …
timhu, Atom should be replacing RSS. It’s an IETF RFC, which is close enough to a standard. It’s also defined in such a way as to not have the ambiguity of RSS. However, the big thing is that WordPress now sends out Atom 1.0 instead of the ephemeral draft version 0.3 that it sent in previous versions.
Scott, I think the best reason to upgrade to 2.2 is security (as always). Also, I think that working on mtsend.py is a great idea. I use to post to my blog and I love it. However, the one thing I wish it could do is add new categories. I don’t actually have any idea how these publishing protocols work; I guess I’ll try to get around to looking into it and helping out with mtsend.py in the near future.
With WP 2.2, it has WordPress specific XML-RPC functions to add new categories. Maybe I can hack it up into mtsend.py.