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WordPress 2.0 Released 105

Posted by Zonk from the highly-recommended dept.
cyberchucktx writes "Version 2.0 of the Wordpress open source blogging software has now been released." From the post: "In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We've modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress."
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WordPress 2.0 Released

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  • If history really repeats itself (Score:4, Funny)

    by SethD ( 42522 ) on Saturday December 31, 2005 @06:49PM (#14372347) Homepage
    If history is any indication, there will be a 2.0.1 release soon. I can wait ;)
    • What! No Demo? I am not sold on screenshots!
    • well, I installed it today on my site, I'm going to have to say it's a rock-solid release.
      • Same here, it looks good, and the upgrade went much smoother than the upgrade to 1.5, mostly because it screw up my themes this time.

      • Re:If history really repeats itself (Score:4, Insightful)

        by ATinyMouse ( 703798 ) on Saturday December 31, 2005 @11:34PM (#14373103)
        I've been using WordPress 1.5.2 for the last several months to blog about my daughter Bethany who was born in July. I upgraded my daughters blog and my nephews blog to 2.0 last night. I recommend following the upgrade instructions [wordpress.org], they list several different times to backup your database and files and not to go any further unless you do. Even though I never had to use the backup, I'm glad I had it. Once the upgrade completed I couldn't browse my blog, but the problem was related to a coding bug with my custom theme. After I fixed it everything has been rock solid.

        Some of the biggest changes I've noticed so far is the admin screen using a Google like dragging and dropping interface for placement of window frames. The added WYSIWYG HTML editor is nice, but when I click on the formatting icons in Firefox none of their actions "stick." I'm pretty sure the problem is related to an extension, I just haven't figured out which one yet. They added a theme preview when picking themes instead of the text one they use to have and categories for your posts can be added on the fly. An even more exhaustive list is here [asymptomatic.net].

        I've only used it twice to post entries since the upgrade, but I'm really happy with what I've seen so far.
  • I have been using Wordpress for almost two years, and every version update adds the features that I want to see. Version 2.0 looks like it already has several new features I never even thought of, like updating the control panel to be slicker and faster. These features will only serve to make Wordpress more valuable to my website. I look forward to installing it later. And, as some users have already pointed out, its open source and fully editable. So if you want to include support for your favorite DB, why

  • Apache for Windows support (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ImaLamer ( 260199 ) <john.lamar@g m a i l . com> on Saturday December 31, 2005 @07:13PM (#14372434) Homepage Journal
    Sadly, I'm stuck with version 1.0.1 because none of the rest will work when using Apache on Windows.

    • Re:Apache for Windows support (Score:5, Informative)

      by chrisgeleven ( 514645 ) on Saturday December 31, 2005 @07:28PM (#14372495) Homepage
      Not only are you using an ancient version of WordPress, you are using one that has some serious security issues. You need to invest in making it work.

      I have gotten WordPress 1.5 to work on Windows before just fine, even with Apache running in Windows.

      Haven't tried it with version 2.0, but that is due to me moving to OS X and not bothering to boot up the Windows laptop to give it a shot...

    • Re:Apache for Windows support (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Oh dear. You ARE a bit behind the times. Wamp [wampserver.com] or XAMPP will both run WP just fine.
    • I clicked reply to comment on the parents "funny" moderation, and it has now been changed to "interesting". Must have been under a minute since I started reading this article. Wow.

    • Wordpress 1.5.2 and 2.0 work fine for me using Apache on windows, so I'm not sure what you're doing wrong.

      Just download XAMPP [apachefriends.org] and wordpress and you'll be up and running within minutes. Not sure what XAMPP would be like as a production system, but it's great for testing.
    • That's such a cheesy way to get tech support. People do that on USENET all the time - step into a *.advocacy group and say "I don't use X because you can't do Y with it." Then you get a bunch of hotheaded replies: "Oh yeah? I enable Z and it works just fine!" or "Read the doc on configuring in Z support before you shoot off your mouth!" and wah-lah, there's their answer.

  • Old news (Score:2, Informative)

    by Mr. Spontaneous ( 784926 )
    I upgraded to 2.0 when they first released it a few days ago, and am thoroughly impressed with it. Sure, I'd appreciate a spellchecker (fixed with a plugin), but nothing is perfect.

    My one gripe with it, though, is it's new rich text editor - TinyMCE. For some reason it refuses to load and throws an error when attempting to do so. I've documented this on my blog [arusahni.net].
    I worked around this problem by, in the Admin area, going to Users, and deselecting the "Use the visual rich editor when writing" check box.
  • ... there are some issues that need to be worked out yet.

    My recommendation with all new software releases ... wait until the first point release before deploying to important systems.

  • WordPress Multiuser: (Score:3, Informative)

    by anandpur ( 303114 ) on Saturday December 31, 2005 @07:30PM (#14372503)
    WordPress MU is multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people wanting to offer a hosted version of WordPress
    http://mu.wordpress.org/ [wordpress.org]
    • WPMU is not considered stable yet, although it is in active development. I wouldn't use it for mission-critical projects unless you have the time and skill to put into tweaking it. (James Farmer's edublogs [edublogs.org] service is a notable example of someone who has invested the time to fine tune things). By the way, if you want a free wordpress blog without worrying about hosting, check out http://wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
  • I had been using the ChenPress plugin for WYSIWIG editing and I found that it had some issues 2.0 solves them. I also like the fact that you can increase the size of the text editing window. In the past when I was writing a post, it seemed that the window was way too small.

    http://www.stockmarketgarden.com/ [stockmarketgarden.com]
  • One note: Safari and older versions of Opera, both fantastic browsers, don't yet support everything that's needed to do WYSIWYG, but we fully expect new versions of those browsers will continue to improve their standards support, so it may just be a matter of time.
    What's this all about?

    • Re:FTFA WTF (Score:2, Informative)

      by douceur ( 98547 )
      They're referring to the WYSIWYG editor they've introduced for writing entries. I assume it requires support of the designMode attribute. There's a little more here [mozilla.org], if you're interested.

    • Re:FTFA WTF (Score:2, Funny)

      by Big Diluth ( 85300 )
      I think that means Safari and older versions of Opera don't support everything that's needed to do WYSIWYG.

      I could be wrong though.
    • I'm not sure. Safari works fine with wordpress.
      • WP 2.0 works just fine with Safari ... WordPress detects that you're using Safari and serves up the old-style editing interface instead of TinyMCE, its WYSIWYG editor. Read more about TinyMCE's Safari incompatibilities (or from their perspective, Safari's TinyMCE incompatibilities) here [moxiecode.com].
    • The rich-text editor for posting requires features that Opera and Safari haven't implemented yet. People using those browsers will have to write their posts using the regular plain-text editor. (IMO, given the code that the rich editor generates, that's not a huge loss...)

      Opera 9 preview 1 is able to use the rich editor. I'm not sure what Safari is missing, so I don't know how far away Safari support is. The rich editor WordPress uses is TinyMCE [moxiecode.com], so you can check out their compatibility chart [moxiecode.com]. Safari 2

  • Why? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Qbertino ( 265505 ) <moiraNO@SPAMmodparlor.com> on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:17PM (#14372845)
    Why is it that WordPress has such a fanbase within the geek croud that it is mentioned every odd week on slashdot and simular forums but such powerfull well-built open source blogging tools like b2evolution or the awesome Pivot [pivotlog.net] never get mentioned - even if they reach a major release? I've mostly heard programmers rave about WordPress but it doesn't appear to me as the cream of oss server side goodies, so what is it all about?

    Anybody care to shed some light on this for me?

    • Re:Why? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Baricom ( 763970 )
      I think WordPress gets coverage on Slashdot because of its popularity - for whatever the reason, there's far, far more people running it than other open source weblog platforms.

      As for why it's so popular, I really can't say. I do think part of the reason is the mass exodus from Movable Type when Six Apart changed the licensing model for the 3.0 release. Perhaps the WordPress people saw an opportunity to increase their user base when they heard the news, and shouted to the people. The increase in marketsh

    • Re:Why? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by BlueMoss ( 37383 )
      I chose Wordpress 1.5.2 for http://multimediaplex.com/ [multimediaplex.com] and the local high school newspaper, http://copperchronicle.org/ [copperchronicle.org] because it has a huge user community that creates and refines plug-ins. Their codex wiki is very rich in tips and content, and they don't have the support and community issues that splits the other Content Management Systems into forked versions like Mambo and the PHPNuke variants.

      Plus, Wordpress actually justifies type.
    • I for one like it because of its sleak html code it generates as well as the solid coding base it has. Sure, the features are not enough for some people, but it has never tried to be an entire website portal, just a very good blog software. b2evo in my very personal eyes just cant match it - and there is probpaly no other blog soft that can be hooked up that quickly and troublefree. But this is again baed on my personal experience i have (since 0.7 i believe) Its up to you by the way, to /. other blog so

    • I refuse to learn absolutely anything concerning PHP. I loathe the language but I agreed to help a friend install a blogging solution recently.

      I looked at what's roughly available and saw the general vibe was heading to Wordpress. I got the package, went through the steps and I had it working in no time. The installation is polished, the steps are very user friendly and well thought out and the whole process and interface is totally polished.

      I still loathe PHP (Typo3 anyone?) but Wordpress is the solid

  • It just doesn't get any better than this. Well maybe New Years Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
  • Funny, I was impressed by the WYSIWYG editor the first time I see it and install its beta on my localhost. Now that I've use it several times on my localhsot, and even tried to mimick the same behaviour by installing tinyMCE plugin for my wp 1.5.x What should you do if you want to tweak the HTML in your editor? Of course, switch to HTML view. And then you'll just edit the HTML rite? Wrong! You have to parse your HTML spaghetti (it's like a long line of HTML code without any line break) yourself, and then l
  • Can it use SQLite as a backend? Running MySQL or PostgreSQL is overkill and unwarranted for these kinds of applications.

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