With the passing week, WordPress 3.0 was released. Although many are afraid of trying it out thus far, I was one of the strong (and brave 
) who went ahead and tried out WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”, named after a famous pianist. What’s the main point of WordPress 3.0 (the “downloading” point)? The vast customizations you can do.
Thelonious (WordPress 3.0) offers many new features that are great for both begging and advanced WordPress users. Although I haven’t explored all of the new features, I have explored a few, and I’m going to share two of the coolest ones with you.
One of the coolest things about WordPress Thelonious, in my mind, is the merging of WordPress and WordPress Multi-User. Now, you can manage multiple websites with one WordPress installation. To do this, however, you will need to follow the tutorial provided by WordPress.
The Multisite feature isn’t anything huge, but it does make everything a lot simpler. You no longer will have to log into 8 different blogs (on the same root domain name (eg; hotblogtips.com)). It’s a really quick time saver!
Another cool feature it the new Menus feature. With the menus feature, you can “handcraft your website’s navigation” (quoted from WordPress release video).
From the Menus feature, you can change the order of pages, add custom links, and add categories all to the navigation of your website. Although some themes allow you to do this without WordPress 3.0, it is cool for those who don’t own such themes.
The only downside is it is only works with themes compatible with WordPress 3.0. So, if you are interested in WordPress 3.0 for mainly this reason, you are out of luck if you’re theme isn’t compatible.
Now, I only covered two of the MANY features available in WordPress 3.0, so to see more of the major additions to the powerful version of WordPress, watch the below video;
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It definitely sounds like my blog network could use it.
I haven't upgraded yet. I am gonna wait a few more days before upgrading. But all the new changes look great and I plan on taking full advantage of them.
This is a brilliant move from WordPress to give users a fresh new look when they launch their WordPress site. WordPress 3.0 will come bundled with a new default theme called 2010 which will have built-in support for child themes, header customization and background.
I'm also not a brave one when it comes to upgrading to WordPress 3.0. I personally just like what I still have and will remain with it for a while.
I do like what you said here about the multi-site feature it has. That definitely would be a handle little deal to have if you have two or more sites to manage.
That should turn some heads right there and when I get more sites/blogs up I might just upgrade for that reason alone.