WordPress 2.7 Installation Upgradation and Features

At last, a certified WordPress release which is so perfect that you will just crave for more. But, as good things take their own time to come or happen, so does WordPress. WordPress team has taken its toll on so many desperate seekers for a perfect platform which is robust and as well as visually appealing. So, have they got it, at last? The only answer would be, Yes. They have got it and they are, you need to say, we are extremely happy with what we have got.

That’s the dashboard of the new wordpress and all the features are based on Ajax and you would never miss a second while you are working or going to work on a post or replying to the comments. The menus that we have been accustomed all this while are entirely changed and every feature that you wish to access is just a mouse click away and not a split to waste. Thanks a lot Matt Thomas and Andy Peatling for providing us with such a visually appealing application which is a breeze to work on and with.No more hassles of reloading the entire screen to just access the next menu item.

The work and testing, both by hackers and testers had been going on for the past few months and there had been an official notification from the WordPress Team over How the New Look of WordPress is going to be?.

So are we just going to go ga-ga over the visuals or are we going to discuss something on the new features?

Yeah, yeah, now comes the part where we would share the coolest and new features.

There are supposed to be more than 400 changes in the new blogging system which makes it evident that there is something or the other in store for most of us.

Some of the features that were in store are:

1. Dashboard and write box rearranging: A bliss to work with this version is the totally restructured Dashboard which was earlier the boring panel which used to be the initial point for every feature. That is, no matter what you wish to access, you need to go through the dashboard atleast once. Now, NO.

Now, get over and learn to move on for better things. Just as the quote goes

Nothing is permanent Except Change.

2. One click plugin installs: One more feature which is liked by all and loved by the most. Now, don’t think of going to wordpress.org site and searching for plugins. You can do the same from the dashboard. You can rate the plugins and download them from a single screen. Cool.

3. Reply to comments from admin: No going to Comments section and selecting the comments reply on them. Approve, Spam, Reply a comment from the same new Dashboard.

4. Sticky Posts: Now making a formal announcement to the viewers is just a click away. And it would be there as long as you wish, no matter how many posts you do. So, announce to the world What your New Year Resolutions Are Now?

5. XMLRPC Comments API -Support for the XML-RPC protocol which is a simplified API that encodes your comments in XML and transports them via HTTP.

What is XML-RPC?

It’s a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet.

It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned.

6. HTTPOnly cookies: The HTTP API is an attempt to standardize the HTTP requests and responses for WordPress. It will eventually obsolete Snoopy and deprecate the other functions in WordPress. That is, once the HTTP API is completely stable.

The HTTP API handles the response as well, so that it standardizes how you handle the final response. What is given back to you is in the form of an array, with the headers, body, and response as array keys. More will be explained about them later.(Excerpt from WordPress.org)

And there are a few more worthy features which should take their own space to be explained in brief.

Just follow the instructions, like if you are installing the WordPress for the first time, if you are upgrading from an older version Read This and Download the new version WordPress 2.7 from Here.

If you run into any problems, you can always post a question in the supporting forums or here at Team Nirvana in the comments section. We would be glad to help you out.

You could also poll on what is the feature that you love the most in WordPress 2.7 over here.