The beauty of having a WordPress test site like this one is that I can take all sorts of chances that I wouldn’t regularly take with my main site. Like running it on WordPress 3.0 Alpha for example. Which it is, by the way.
To show how dangerous this would be if I had been foolish enough to actually upgrade my main site to an alpha build of the up and coming WordPress 3.0 is this new version isn’t up to to the alpha 1 stage yet. I mean there’s still a few major features to incorporate.
Oog, talk about cutting edge here.
With that said, I’m rather surprised as to how this in-utero WordPress 3.0 is running so far. And all my usual plugins, at first glance, seem to working without a problem. Even the error logs are clear, fer crissakes.
And here I was, hoping for some major weirdness. I must be patient–weirdness will come.
Edit: And on top of everything else, like the lack of any major weirdness, the WordPress developers have obviously decided to make the theme that I use on my main site (Kirby) the default theme in WordPress 3.0 (2010). At least there’s some fairly nice built in header images I can choose from.
So, apart from a new default theme, what exciting/depressing/dull new features can we expect in 3.0? Is it radically different, or are there just a few tweaks to make it look radically different?
Grandad – So far nothing has radically changed as far as current existing features/functions are concerned. The admin look like the admin we have now.
What has been added is the “Woo Themes” menu navigation under the “Appearance” menu which I have absolutely no idea how to work or what it’s supposed to accomplish (even after watching the video and I thought I understood it). See link below for reference and link to Woo Themes’ video. All the pieces must not be in place yet or I’m just being stupid about it.
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/
The biggest change is the merging of WordPress MU and WordPress.org into a single platform. In the future, upgrading a single user site to WP 3.0 won’t activate any of the MU features so the single user site stays a single user site. On the same token, upgrading an existing WP MU site to WP 3.0 upgrades a multi-user site as a multi-user site.
If a blogger wants to switch his/her single user site to a multi-user site in WP 3.0, It’s done via the “Network” item under the “Tools” menu. Haven’t attempted this myself though.
There’s other small changes and improvements here and there throughout the admin so far but they’re minor so far.