Wordpress 2.3 has been in the docket for a while now and in just a couple of days, they’ll be releasing a stable copy. This upgrade is of particular significance to me since one of the major features in this release is going to be tags. They have been well aware of Ultimate Tag Warrior’s popularity amongst Wordpress bloggers, but the plugin is sometimes cumbersome. I’ve bumped into many situations where I wanted to do something, but it just wasn’t very easy to do. So the Wordpress team has been working on integrating tagging within Wordpress itself and create an opportunity for plugin writers to simply extend the functionality as they please rather than needing to worry about the tags themselves.
The good news is that there will be a tag importer for Ultimate Tag Warrior. So I won’t have to craft up a way to move over the tags myself. That’s helpful 
Tags aren’t the only new thing in 2.3 though. They’re building in canonical redirection for www.domain.com to domain.com. That’s a big hole in most people’s site when they get started. It takes a little bit of reading through SEO material before you realise that this is an issue and what to do to fix it. This will help you avoid it with your blog out of the box. There’s also going to be changes to the Dashboard. You’re actually going to be able to modify it through plugin hooks. That’s going to produce a golden plugin somewhere somehow. It’s impossible to tell what it will be right now, but there’s a huge opportunity there in an area that a lot of people would like to see a quality plugin created.
If you want more details, go check out Lorelle’s great compilation of 2.3 resources. There’s lots there and the release is coming soon.
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1 Ian // Sep 22, 2007 at 4:56 pm
… not to mention that it’ll finally inspire me to get off my ass and upgrade my (apparently vulnerable) wordpress install.
Forget new features, how about making the update process less unpleasant? Particularly for those of us with non-braindead setups where permissions actually matter? Makes it kind of a pain, even when you only do it every other week or so.
2 Ian // Sep 22, 2007 at 4:58 pm
… speaking of, it’s about time they started using prepare on mysql statements… well, whenever they actually implement it.
It’s times like this that I wish the habari project would get off its ass and release something usable.
3 Marc // Sep 22, 2007 at 7:01 pm
The only simplification to the update process I’ve seen is the Auto Upgrade plugin with which I didn’t have the best of experiences.
As for the prepare statement, beggars can’t be choosers I suppose…