WordPress 3.1 CMS ready
Most popular blogging CMS WordPress just released WordPres 3.1 and now blogger can see and notice new toolbar right top of the their blog, and some new fast qucik launch link has been added to admin panel along with new colors. As bloggers knows Automattic, the company behind the popular open source blogging platform WordPress, has officially unveiled version 3.1, claiming the software is now ‘more of a CMS than ever before.’
WordPress 3.1 including a new linking workflow designed to make it easier to link to existing posts and pages, a new admin bar that provides one-click access to commonly used dashboard features from any section, and a streamlined writing interface that aims to be significantly less cluttered than in previous editions.
The latest release also includes support for ‘post formats,’ a way of changing the layout or appearance of an entry according to the type of post – an attempt to replicate the success of Tumbler’s simple posting styles.
Back-end improvements include the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom field queries, a new network admin interface, an entirely overhauled import and export system, and more.
“With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before,” claimed project lead Matt Mullenweg in a release statement. “There were over two thousand commits to the codebase in the 3.1 cycle.”
While WordPress 3.1 is certianly an impressive upgrade, there’s a certain feature that is sure to cause controversy: the codename. This latest release takes the name of famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt as inspiration: WordPress 3.1 ‘Django.’
Sadly, that’s a name familiar in content management circles as well as the jazz world: Django is a high-level Python framework for creating complex dynamic web services – including, for those with the talent, WordPress-style blogs.
The latest WordPress release can be installed using the one-click update tool in the Admin panel on all self-hosted WordPress blogs, or downloaded for manual installation directly from WordPress.org.
