WordPress 2.2 Getz Released
by David Peralty on May 15th, 2007 
7 Comments
Well, it didn’t take long to go from a release candidate to a full release and now WordPress 2.2 is out. Without the new tagging system, which we should now see in 2.3, WordPress 2.2 takes care of a lot of behind the scenes issues that needed some work.
Here are the biggest features mentioned on the development blog:
- WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
- Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
- A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
- Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
- We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
- Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
- We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.
Check out the full details at WordPress.org and it is time to upgrade.
Does anybody know if the bloggingpro theme is compatible with WP 2.2?
Thanks!
Hey Sam, I don’t think the Widget Ready version is. I am not yet sure why, but I have been hearing some comments about it. I will look into it soon, but the non-Widget ready version should work just fine.
Let me know if you have any issues.
Thanks for replying so quickly. I have just upgraded my non-widget version (which is great – thank you so much) and so far everything is a-ok. Thanks again.
Yup, indeed! Even the WR version works, just the sidebar is no longer dynamic….
I really miss the preview window beneath the text field. Will it ever come back? Am i the only one thinking this isn’t an improvement?
@David: Removing that window at the bottom is about the BEST fix in this release. It takes so damned long to load at times.
Did you notive the Preview/View link after you click Save and Continue Editing? That will open a new tab in either IE or Firefox…. Much better and loads quicker… It is great for refreshing to check your work as you go….
MUCH NICER…. In my “not so” humble opinion.