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Wordpress 2.7.x

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Wordpress 2.7.x

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Features 2.7.x

Comments

Theme & Plug-ins Related

Greater Controls

Other Tweaks

Comments

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Comments

Close Comments On Old Posts

Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to continue letting comments come in on an old post, and it is a favourite trick

of spammers anyway. 

WordPress 2.7 will allow you to close

comments on older posts, eliminating the need for yet another

plugin.

Comments

Comment Paging (Pagination)

Comments broken into pages instead of being a never ending bottom to

your post.

Comments

Comment Replies From the Admin Section

A feature that has long been needed is the ability to reply to

comments from your admin section without having to go to

the front end of your blog.

Comments

Comment Threading

It’s not just admin comment replies that are getting love, but all

comments will now be in a threaded format.

Great for those long debates you get into about what “sux” or

why someone is a “newb,” at last no one will be confused about

to whom you are referring!

Comments

XMLRPC Comments API

Support for the XML-RPC protocol which is a simplified API that

encodes your comments in XML and transports them via

HTTP.

Theme & Plugin Related

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Theme & Plugin Related

One-Click Plugin Installs

Another long time plug-in favourite is going the way of

the dinosaurs with the introduction of the ability to

install plugins from the dashboard.

Theme & Plugin Related

Plug-in Browser

Browsing for plug-in, one of the favourite pastimes of many bloggers, will be made easier by being able

to do it without ever leaving your Wordpress

install.

Theme & Plugin Related

Sticky Posts

There have been numerous Wordpress plug-in over the years to make a post

“sticky” so that it stays as the top post on your front page no matter how many

posts you publish after it. The feature has now been built in to the core program.

Theme & Plugin Related

Updating the Core Wordpress

Yet another Wordpress plug-in finds its way into

the core Wordpress program. For those users

who haven’t used something like Fantastico or Simple Scripts to install their blog, there will now be a more automated way for you to keep up with all

of those pesky security updates.

Theme & Plugin Related

Theme Update API Notices

You will receive updates when your

installed themes are updated just like

Wordpress does now with plug-in.

Greater Controls

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Greater Controls

Batch Editing for Posts

Ever needed to edit the tags for several posts, but couldn’t do it because of the work involved? Batch editing will now allow you to do mass edits of your posts so that you can make as

many changes as you want to your blog no matter how old it is.

Greater Controls

Column Control

On any management page that shows

columns, you will now be able to choose which columns are shown and

how.

Greater Controls

Ping & Trackback Moderation

With the ever increasing wave of “splogs” trackbacking your

blog, there will finally be moderation of them in a more

manageable, frame-like format.

Greater Controls

QuickPress

Ever wanted to just do a quick post without having to load the entire write page?  Now you can directly

from the Dashboard page with QuickPress.

Greater Controls

Recent Drafts

There will now be a module on your

dashboard to get to your most recent drafts so you can quickly get access to your posts that are in progress.

Other Tweaks

Dashboard and Write Rearrangements

There have been significant

redesigns to navigation and

general layouts of the dashboard and

write pages.

Other Tweaks

PHPXref

Ever go slightly loopy trying to make sense

of PHP () files? PHPXref will help you by making PHP into easy to digest

documents that you can read through. All of this will be hosted on WordPress.org.

Other Tweaks

Image Size Tweaks

Thumbnail and Medium commands will stay the same, but Large will now be restricted to

1024 pixels, or the constraints of your theme. If you want no restrictions and post

insane sized pictures, you will now be able to select “Full Size” which will post your image at its original size. You will also now see the dimensions for each size next to the radio

buttons.

Other Tweaks

Redundant Coding

Theme authors will be happy to see some

changes to the wp_page_menu wrapper that will simplify their

coding and add conveniences like

making “Home” part of the l

Libraries & Librarians Using Wordpress

Libraries & Librarians Using Wordpress

Libraries & Librarians Using Wordpress

Libraries & Librarians Using Wordpress

Why Wordpress, Not Others Software?

• Low Barrier of Entry

• Plug and Play

• Search Engine Friendly (Google’s Bestfriend)

• Themes and More Themes

• Bill Gates Can’t Get In Your Way

Why Wordpress, Not Others Software?

• It's easy to add pages in WordPress.

• It's easy to update navigation in WordPress.

• Wordpress uses XHTML/CSS for fast-loading, bloat-free sites.

• Wordpress is an online publishing platform,

• Our library has a Wordpress Evangelionist

Wordpress & The Social Web (A Librarian Perspective)

Feasibility

Crowd sourcing

Interactive Outreach

Viral Marketing

Scalability

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