Wordpress 2.1 Released

Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:

* Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
* Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
* The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
* Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
* New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
* You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
* Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
* Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
* Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
* More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
* Pages can now be drafts, or private.
* Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
* The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
* Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
* Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
* The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
* A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.



Thats right time for another upgrade.

@.o so much crazy updating. i JUST updated. ahhh

Lobs, what weird decisions are you referring to ?

I upgraded. and wow I'm glad I did. its sooo much easier to edit pages now because code and visual editing modes are now tabbed, so you dont have to clip the image and wait for the popup.

I may not upgrade for a while.

I am using My Page Order, My Link Order and My Category Order plugins, and I am concerned that this new approach will totally fry my site.

I just upgraded myself on January 17th to version 2.0.7. I'm really reluctant to upgrade again because of issues with plugins I've grown to love. I'm going to wait a few days to see what other issues with this newest version of WP come up.

Yeah, what all you guys said!

Me wait....me be patient....me Tarzan.

:D am i the only one that didn't have any issues at all?

oh. that explains it. I've only got a tiny bit of custom code.

thanks for the link, gook..bookmarked it

on a fresh install of 2.1 and after importing some blogger posts 500+ i lost the wysiwyg and html tabs

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8372/wordpress3lj.jpg

you're right, it was unchecked but i didnt disable it. Thanks

Wordpress developers are smart cookies =P

The new features are nice, but I'm personally not much of a wordpress fan simply because the backend code can be a little drawn out and prone to bugs as a result.

The one feature I like is the "custom image header" and I implemented it in my MistyLook theme for its Version 3.

Andreas, they came up with new method called wp_list_bookmarks() . this should be used in place of wp_get_links().

Thanks
Sadish

Hi everyone!

Dont know if this is the right section to ask this, i wanted to translate wordpress(just the outside) to another language, the administration can stay in English, i edited the main index.php to my native languague(posted,by,on,leave comments etc) but where do i edit the dates? for exam+ple i installed the this day on plugin but it displays the date in english,cant seem to find the calendr to edit the months names aswell. i could go on a test and trial but im new to wordpress and i dont want to muck with stuff im not used to.

i just want to edit what the user sees nothing else.

Thanks. Where can i download the wordpress 2.1 translation file, i have some freetime in my hands and i could help translating it.

Thanks, you can see my blog HERE

I've also posted this question on open worpress

I haven't upgraded to 2.1 yet. I don't think I will for awhile either as i'm waiting for all the plugins to either update or make new ones.

@dracoine
i meant just what the user sees, not the administration panel, for xample when i hover the mouse on the number of comments i see "comments on...." i would like to change that to my native language, or i have to translate the whole thing(what the user sees and administration panel)?

@ainslie
yes for now i want to translate the theme im using (cordobo) so that i can take my blog out of the test area into the open and share it with others that might be looking for it in my language, after that im open to translate other themes, ive done some software translation in the past (open source software), email me with details if possible.

Sorry if im not using the right terminology, as i said im new to wordpress, ive been using blogger for about 1 year now.

Thanks

Hi Christopher, thanks for the info, but thats not whatr im looking for HERE'S an example, i found where to change "leave a comment" but where is the code to change "Comment on".

also i see the days in the month in English get the st nd rd after the day itself, where can i remove that and the name of the months, do i need to change my wordpress to my native language or can i do this at the template level only?

Thanks

@ricardo, I've sent you an email about it. Sorry for the delay.

I decided that since bluetravels was toast, I would upgrade to 2.1

The site is working again, though for how long I am not sure.

As for 2.1, where is the WYSIWYG editor? I have it enabled, but it is not displaying when I compose posts.

UPDATE:

I think it needs to be pointed out that the WYSIWYG editor does not work in Safari.

So, that is why I was not seeing it.

In fact, 2.1 really does not function well in Safari at all. I suppose it is adequate, but you need FF if you want to get all you can from WP2.1

Luckily I do. :)

An update for 2.1 and 2.0.X is available. :)

does the Wordpress.org's style disappear after like 3 seconds and turn into a blob of text for anyone other than me?