Four days ago, the Wordpress team announced the release of the first beta of the new 2.3 release. I’ve made no secret of the fact that this blog runs on a nightly development build, which I update about once a week (its noted in the footer of every page - linked too!).
The new tagging structure is in place and, seemingly, it performs reasonably well so far. I’ve been keeping up with the releases of Ultimate Tag Warrior and haven’t felt like trying to use the built in tags yet (although I have been using both to record the tags). With all of the topsy-turvy behavior with this site in this month, I’m surprised that anything actually works (and, if you’d seen what I’d done to cobble it back together, you’d be amazed too - enough to buy me a Keiths,especially since 8-pacs of cans are on sale).
The only speed bump that I’ve come across is a few compatibility issues with plugins, which are minor. With the new fallback to disable misbehaving plugins, I’ve not been worrying about that type of problem. The only thing that I’ve had an issue with is when activating or deactivating one, I don’t return to the plugin page. All I get is a blank page. I can get back by “erasing” the trailing end of the URL in the address bar to get back to just the plugin page. Whatever I’ve asked for has been done, so the function is there. Its just the “redirect” afterwards, which is a minor semantic fix. I may contact the various plugin authors for the ones that I use so that they can update their work this weekend.
As you can see, my site’s still here, despite a major hard drive failure. So, why not get more than your toes wet. The water’s nice!
Maybe comments are broken, as I don’t see any….LOL
The plugin manager also has a version checker that checks to see if there is an update to a plugin that you have (from the Wordpress Plugin Database). The next cool step would be to have an upgrade mechanism that does the upgrade for you.
I am not too keen on testing out beta versions, but I’ll upgrade when it’s ready as usual.
I’m not all that thrilled about new features or feature enhancements. I thought WP 1.5 was good enough for me and I still think that the new features post 2.0 and 2.2 bloat up the software too much.