flipthedolphin

I’m a bit late on this but lemme summarize the recent events:

• on January 22, 2007 we get WordPress 2.1 codenamed “Ella”
• on January 26, 2007 we get a new version of Tarski (the theme I’m using right now). Now reaching version 1.2.2

Both have plenty of new features and fixes.
On the WordPress side we have:

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
• Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
• Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
• New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
• You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
• Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
• Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
• More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
• Pages can now be drafts, or private.
• Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
• The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
• Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
• Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
• A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

On the Tarski changelog we read:

New features

• 404 error messages can be set via the $errorPageInclude theme hook
• New theme hook $postEndInclude added
• New theme hook $pageEndInclude added

Tweaks

• Dutch translation updated
• Swedish translation updated
• German translation updated
• Links listing made compatible with WP 2.1
• Top navigation made compatible with WP 2.1
• Top navigation turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Date formatting turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Body class generation turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Instances of $table_prefix replaced with wpdb->$prefix
• h2 link display adjusted
• pre element display improved
• Tarski now uses the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js files bundled with WP 2.1 when available

Bug fixes

• Erroneous query_posts argument cat=-3 removed from pagination query
• Functions page text conversion to gettext framework completed
• loop.php now @includes the constants file so $frontPageInclude displays
• Link category titles only display when that category contains visible links
• Sidebar conditionals in tags.php and links.php removed

Seems like I’ll be having fun updating these jewels on my sites.