Social Blogging – New WordPress 2.5 Features

“As always with WordPress, we don’t claim any of these features to be perfect, or to be better than everyone else in the world, but they are done by and for the people and the one thing we do promise is that with every release we listen and do our best to improve.” – Matt Mullenwegg, founding developer of WordPress

WordPress 2.5 gives you many new options in your social blogging. Here is a partial list of the upgrades:

• Cleaner, faster, better organized,less cluttered dashboard lets you really focus on your blog
• Dashboard Widgets
  • Fun stats about your posting
  • Latest comments
  • Who links to you
  • New and popular plugins
  • WordPress news
  • (Customize any widgets to show, e.g., news from your local paper instead of WP news)
• Multi-file upload with progress bar
• Search both posts AND pages — perfect solution if you use WordPress as a content management system
• Tag management — Add, rename, delete, tags, no plugins needed
• Password strength meter
• Few-click plugin upgrades — automatic download & installation of plug-in upgrades
• Friendlier visual post editor — it doesn’t mess with your code anymore
• Built-in galleries — you can embed whole galleries of photos in a post
• Salted passwords — much greater protection against hackers
• Secure cookies
• Inline documentation — explains functions and when to use them
• Database optimization — the process is now a bit faster
• Improved “Add Media” button function

If something goes wrong in your social blogging, it’s probably a plug-in causing a javascript error. A new button allows you to turn off all your plug-ins, then turn them back on one by one.

There’s more. You can read the complete, detailed list of WordPress 2.5 social blogging features.