Wordpress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released - We love it!

Written by Patrick Friday, 23 July 2010 15:24

WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" features some great new featues to make life easier for bloggers and publishers.

It is now possible top set your admin username to anything you like during installation.

A new more user centric back-end interface features a lighter look with less distractions and context sensitive help.

Using the Grand Unified Updater we can now update our Wordpress installation, themes and plugins all in one place.

A great new default theme called Twenty Ten accompanies the latest release. It has built-in support for child themes, background alterations, header customization, and drop-down menus. Twenty Ten demo.

The custom menu system means that we can hand craft the navigation for our Wordpress sites - Great for SEO.

Custom Post Types give our developers the opportunity to develop more then just standard posts and pages e.g. products, property listings or a contacts manager. Combined with improved taxonomy support, custom post types provide the CMS capabilities we have been waiting for from Wordpress.

WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" also brings the merge of Wordpress and Wordpress MU.

Check out the WordPress 3.0 Codex page for a full run-down of features in version 3.0.