This document provides an overview of new features and changes in WordPress 2.7, including the ability to close comments on old posts, comment paging, comment replies from the admin section, comment threading, one-click plugin installs, plugin browser, sticky posts, updating core WordPress, theme update notices, batch editing posts, column control, ping and trackback moderation, quickpress, recent drafts, dashboard and write page rearrangements, PHPXref, image size tweaks, and redundant coding. Resources for learning more about WordPress are also provided.

1. Wordpress 2.7.x

3. In 2003

4. Features in 2007
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Libraries & Librarian Using Wordpress
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Why Wordpress, Not Others?
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Wordpress & The Social Web (A Librarian
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Perspective)
Our Wikis (Wordpress) – Knowledge
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Construction

5. Comments
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Theme & Plug-ins Related
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Greater Controls
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Other Tweaks
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6. http://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/library/business/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

7. Sometimes it just doesn’t
make sense to continue WordPress 2.7 will allow you
letting comments come in to close comments on older
on an old post, and it is a posts, eliminating the need
favourite trick of spammers for yet another plugin.
anyway.
 Close Comments On Old Posts

8. Comments broken into pages
instead of being a never ending
bottom to your post.
 Comment Paging (Pagination)

9. A feature that has long been needed is
the ability to reply to comments from
your admin section without having to go
to the front end of your blog.
 Comment Replies From the
Admin Section

10. It’s not just admin comment replies that are
getting love, but all comments will now be in a
threaded format.
Great for those long debates
you get into about what “sux”
or why someone is a “newb,”
at last no one will be confused
about to whom you are
referring!
 Comment Threading

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

12. http://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/library/business/wp-admin/themes.php

13. Another long time plug-in favourite is
going the way of the dinosaurs with the
introduction of the ability to install
plugins from the dashboard.
One-Click Plugin Installs
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14. Browsing for plug-in, one of the
favourite pastimes of many
bloggers, will be made easier by
being able to do it without ever
leaving your Wordpress install.
Plug-in Browser
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15. There have been numerous Wordpress plug-in over
the years to make a post “sticky” so that it stays as
the top post on your front page no matter how
many posts you publish after it. The feature has
now been built in to the core program.
Sticky Posts
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16. Yet another Wordpress plug-in
finds its way into the core
Wordpress program. For those
users who haven’t used something
like Fantastico or Simple Scripts to
install their blog, there will now be
a more automated way for you to
keep up with all of those pesky
security updates.
Updating the Core Wordpress
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17. You will receive updates when
your installed themes are
updated just like Wordpress
does now with plug-in.
Theme Update API Notices
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18. http://hazmanaziz.com/wp-admin/

19. Ever needed to edit the tags for several posts, but couldn’t do it because of the work
involved? Batch editing will now allow you to do mass edits of your posts so that
you can make as many changes as you want to your blog no matter how old it is.
Batch Editing for Posts
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20. On any management page that
shows columns, you will now
be able to choose which
columns are shown and how.
Column Control
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21. With the ever increasing wave of
“splogs” trackbacking your blog, there
will finally be moderation of them in a
more manageable, frame-like format.
Ping & Trackback Moderation
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22. Ever wanted to just do a quick post without
having to load the entire write page? Now
you can directly from the Dashboard page
with QuickPress.
QuickPress
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23. There will now be a module on
your dashboard to get to your
most recent drafts so you can
quickly get access to your posts
that are in progress.
Recent Drafts
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24. There have been
significant redesigns to
navigation and general
layouts of the
dashboard and write
pages.
Dashboard and Write Rearrangements
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25. Ever go slightly loopy trying to
make sense of PHP () files?
PHPXref will help you by
making PHP into easy to
digest documents that you can
read through. All of this will be
hosted on WordPress.org.
PHPXref
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26. Thumbnail and Medium commands will stay the same, but
Large will now be restricted to 1024 pixels, or the
constraints of your theme. If you want no restrictions and
post insane sized pictures, you will now be able to select
“Full Size” which will post your image at its original size.
You will also now see the dimensions for each size next to
the radio buttons.
Image Size Tweaks
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27. Theme authors will be happy to
see some changes to the
wp_page_menu wrapper that
will simplify their coding and add
conveniences like making
“Home” part of the l
Redundant Coding
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32. Low Barrier of Entry
•
Plug and Play
•
Search Engine Friendly
•
(Google’s Bestfriend)
Themes and More Themes
•
Bill Gates Can’t Get In Your Way
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33. It's easy to add pages in WordPress.
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It's easy to update navigation in WordPress.
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Wordpress uses XHTML/CSS for fast-loading,
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bloat-free sites.
Wordpress is an online publishing platform,
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Our library has a Wordpress Evangelionist
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34. Feasibility
Crowd
Scalability
sourcing
Viral Interactive
Marketing Outreach

35. https://teamsites.ntu.edu.sg/Library/wiki/libraryblogs/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx

36. Resources
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 Wordpress.org – http://wordpress.org/
 Wordpress TV - http://wordpress.tv/
More books on Wordpress in NTU Library
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(via bookjetty.com)
 http://www.bookjetty.com/people/hazman/books
?tag=wordpress