Comments on: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:16:31 +0000

I was happy with WordPress 2.3, and I’m still getting used to this new version. I’m still having some issues with plugins that I want to use, but for the most part it’s good. It took me a minute to get used to the different admin layout.

By: Dj Eflow

Dj Eflow — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:57 +0000

Excellent roundup, although right now we have 2.5 already, which is very stable and satisfying….
Great post

By: Shauna

Shauna — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:43:38 +0000

Hi,
I was just wondering does any one know how to give non-members a password for your blog so that they can read it. I need to give a few of my lecturers a password to my project blog.

Thanks in advance,
Shauna

By: Fabien

Fabien — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:51:29 +0000

Something missing though is a Tag administration panel. If, now, WordPress is going to take care of Tags instead of doing it through plugins, it should definitely have a panel to administer them.

By: Resonate Seo

Resonate Seo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:41:52 +0000

Excellent roundup, definitely what i was looking for an in-depth close up of wp 2.3 specs.

Great post

By: Sam Hickson

Sam Hickson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:07:51 +0000

Great Article and the bit about canonical domains was interesting. I must admit i used joomla and wordpress and the flexibility that wordpress has and ease of use for clients has made me pick nothing else for my blog and CMS websites since.

By: fedmich

fedmich — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:57:59 +0000

Thanks for those tips. :)

By: Bridepower.com

Bridepower.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:13:24 +0000

That is some great information on WordPress, something we all need. I find that the All-In-One SEO Plugin is awesome as well as some of the plugins you mentioned. I’m interested in learning different CMS’s like Drupal, Joomla, etc. WordPress is easy to use, and there are tons of templates available… which is why it’s my CMS of choice.

By: Kyle Moore

Kyle Moore — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:39:20 +0000

Since the upgrade to 2.3, I have not been able to digg any of my articles. I try but digg tells me, “This link does not appear to be a working link.” But it is not. Any idea? You help is kindly appreciated.

Kyle

By: Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:30:16 +0000

Well done! Please post an update when v2.4 comes out too!

By: Paulo

Paulo — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:03:11 +0000

I am a Photographer, and just updated my web-page including a blog with wordpress 2.3 http://www.paulopics.com/blog .
Anyway… I ok with my WP 2.3.

Thanks for the post… very informative

Paulo

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:08:33 +0000

I’ve resisted from installing 2.3, but will need to upgrade soon. Thanks for a great roundup.

By: mdpai

mdpai — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:41:13 +0000

i might say, i dont like WP 2.3 because it’s full of bugs. Maybe in the next update, it will be better

By: n-blue

n-blue — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:41:33 +0000

@Aaron Brazell
Great thanks. I never have idea it will be there. WP2.3 doc also do not mention it. Otherwise, i have overlook.

By: Shams

Shams — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:00:16 +0000

I am very happy with wp2.3. But I face some problems, I can`t add any new categories. It doesn`t work. Even in wp-forum, there`s no solution. Can you help??

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:14:49 +0000

@n-blue: you have to IMPORT the tags yourself – it doesn’t happen automatically. Go to Manage > Import.

By: n-blue

n-blue — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:46:02 +0000

I don’t think WordPress 2.3 import any tag from other tag plugin. I used UTW, after installed 2.3 then apply the new template method(for tag). Nothing show? no tag that imported.

By: theorygame

theorygame — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:22:02 +0000

hey thanks! I’ll update my wp soon too

By: Jemaleddin

Jemaleddin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:16:28 +0000

As just another UTW user that’s disappointed that they didn’t get EVERYTHING UTW did into 2.3′s tag supports, I made a teensy little plugin that outputs tags without making them links. Useful for inserting into meta-keywords, etc.

http://tanglebones.com/plaintags/

By: mlankton

mlankton — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:31:51 +0000

So are they done with 2.2.x, or will 2.2.x be the stable branch while they work the kinks out of 2.3.x?

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:01:04 +0000

@Christophe: WP-Cache was misconfigured and not working properly – thus affecting the sites availability during the Digg. After we got it configged right and working properly, everything hummed along nicely.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:39:14 +0000

thanks for this detailed list, i plan on waiting awhile before i upgrade though.

By: JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes

JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:12:01 +0000

Thanks for the roundup – now I can make an informed decision on what sites to update to 2.3 and which to wait on. I should mention that the Google Sitemaps WP plugin breaks on 2.3 in you don’t upgrade and get the lastest version.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:34:14 +0000

Dionysus yes, if you actually have a look at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) it’s a open collaboration for web application security. Secondly i’m well aware about Open Source projects and their lack of direction when it comes to any standards.

It seems like your argument is that Open Source projects are hard to control, therefore security and basic security development doesn’t apply because there is “no vendor”.

Your other argument is that us researchers should fix the problem ourselves. Now we can, but the issue is that it would be applying a band-aid approach. Education of the developers to create secure software at the start would mean the community would praise them, as their blogs would be more secure out of the box.

Please don’t use the “axioms of open source” argument as the excuse for lack of security. If the linux kernel and numerous other open source projects can embrace SDLC, then why not WordPress?

By: dionysus

dionysus — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:54:33 +0000

Daniel, are the “security researchers” you use as an example at all familiar with the axioms of open source development?

There is no vendor to contact. It almost sounds like you are bitching about a general situation in the security field and not wordpress at all.

If you see a problem that you know how to fix, chances are the other people don’t, and you and any other “researchers” should become developers, and do the development yourselves.

The community will not hate you for it, quite to the contrary, they will likely praise you.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:00:17 +0000

There were comments made on Digg that your site when down for a bit when it was getting a lot of traffic. From this page’s source code, I see that you are using the WP-Cache plugin. But were you using it when the site when down? Could you maybe comment on any actions you took to increase the performance of your site to counteract the load caused by the Digg crowds.

By: Drakudemine

Drakudemine — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:01:17 +0000

Thanks for these great facts. I was actually looking for a list like this.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:25:53 +0000

WordPress 2.3 is in the wild. Remember to be careful when upgrading. Perhaps setup a test blog and run the upgrade their first. Blogscrutiny has linked to a bunch of blogs (including this one) that have important info about the release. Please take the time to read those as well. Remember, it's important to upgrade - but it's also not a race to the finish. Take your time and be careful.

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:05:28 +0000

I wonder if handling a large number of pages will be more easily handled in 2.3. I run a site that I tried to use WP as a true CMS, and it balked with the number of pages I was adding. I ended up moving the “pages” to a wiki.

By: soren121

soren121 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:51:39 +0000

Aaron, where’s 2.3? It’s 3:50 PM EST on 9/24/2007 and no mention of a download for 2.3. Where is it? Do you have any idea?