Update 1/28: I finally got around to upgrading all of my blogs (TiVoBlog, RaianoFamily) to WP 2.1. I had one minor problem which was caused by an outdated plugin (Subscribe to Comments). If I had upgraded to the latest version of this plugin prior to the upgrade I wouldn’t have had a problem. I guess the moral of the story is that you should check whether or not your plugins will work with WordPress 2.1 prior to upgrading.
I just finished upgrading this blog to WP 2.1. I probably will upgrade RaianoFamily and TiVoBlog later in the week once I am happy with how 2.1 is running on this site. In case you missed it, 2.1 contains a number of new features including the ability to auto save posts as well as a tabbed WYSIWYG editor so that you can switch between “code” view and a “visual” view.
Here’s a more complete list of all the new features taken directly from the WordPress development blog:
- 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.