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WordPress is 2.9

WordPress has just released their newest upgrade. The current version released on December 18, 2009 is 2.9.

You may be asking, What’s WordPress?
WordPress is one of the most used blogging software. Many Web developers have even moved to using WordPress to create Web sites. And for SMBs, it does create a very nice looking and easy to update site. It is billed as a full featured content management system with thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.

It is the engine that is used for this site. And we have performed the upgrade. I can report that it went flawlessly.

From the WordPress site:
“The coolest new stuff from a user point of view is:

1. Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
2. Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
3. Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
4. Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).”

WordPress is free and can be downloaded at WordPress.org.

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