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WordPress 2.3 was launched some time back, amid much fanfare. Most bloggers held out for bug fixes, and I did the same. Looking back, there were a few positives and some problems.
Of course, WordPress 2.3 has some much-hyped features like:
- Native tagging support
- Canonical URLs
- Plugin update notifications
- Improved draft management: Draft titles are now paginated on the “Write Post” page.
- Google BlogSearch for incoming links widget
There are some other issues:
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- Tags vs. Categories: Tags are a new feature. There is a category importer to import all categories to the new tag system. However, tags may conflict with categories. I had initially been attracted by the Tag Cloud, and wanted to convert all categories to tags. However, knowing that tags should be used as micro-categories, I decided to do the same.
- Canonical URLs vs .htaccess: WordPress’ new built-in canonical redirects system may conflict with .htaccess.
- Incoming links widget displays links from the same blog
I am sure that some of these will be solved by hackers, and later in official WP releases. On another note, have you found any workarounds to these problems? Tell me through comments.
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That’s the reason why I haven’t upgraded to WP 2.3 until now. I’m still waiting for a more stable release.
I would recommend all WP users, who haven’t upgraded until now not to upgrade because WP2.3 is still very buggy and needs to get fixed.
@Haris: Absolutely – WP is notorious for having several updates once a main branch is released. I too had thought of holding back, as the post suggests, but didn’t do so because of some serious security problem(kylescove on WP2.2 was hacked).
I am still waiting to move to a wordpress blog
@Indyank: Unless you do not know anything about tech(which I don’t expect), WP is the absolute best in terms of blogging platform. I too had been wooed by all the Blogger fanatics who said that managing your blog on a server is hard – but believe me, it is more stable than Blogger(you never know when your blog could be deleted by Google, as happened in the case of iMessengr). Do move quickly – I recommend it strongly.