WordPress 3.0 Beta

What’s new in WordPress 3.0?

Few moments ago I installed the 3.0 beta version of WordPress and so far there’s nothing but great things to say about it. Let’s start from beginning.

The installation:

On the screen below you can see some major changes in WordPress security, an automatic password creation is no longer in use and another big plus added was the option to change (use) a different username for site administrator. Way to go WP, that’s what I am talking about.

Theme Appearance

It’s easier to manage your themes now, new 3.0 version integrated nice tabs with the options to choose already installed themes or browse for some new one.

WordPress 3.0 Default Theme

Good bye Kubrick and hello Twenty Ten the very new 2010 WordPress default theme.

TwentyTen functions and definitions (from functions.php file)

Sets up the theme and provides some helper functions. Some helper functions
are used in the theme as custom template tags. Others are attached to action and
filter hooks in WordPress to change core functionality.

The first function, twentyten_setup(), sets up the theme by registering support
for various features in WordPress, such as post thumbnails, navigation menus, and the like.

When using a child theme (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development), you can
override certain functions (those wrapped in a function_exists() call) by defining
them first in your child theme’s functions.php file. The child theme’s functions.php
file is included before the parent theme’s file, so the child theme functions would
be used.

Functions that are not pluggable (not wrapped in function_exists()) are instead attached
to a filter or action hook. The hook can be removed by using remove_action() or
remove_filter() and you can attach your own function to the hook.

We can remove the parent theme’s hook only after it is attached, which means we need to
wait until setting up the child theme:

<code>
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘my_child_theme_setup’ );
function my_child_theme_setup() {
// We are providing our own filter for excerpt_length (or using the unfiltered value)
remove_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘twentyten_excerpt_length’ );
…
}
</code>

Post Tags

Another new feature in WP 3.0 the management of your post tags. From what I can see they work very much the same way as categories.

Authentication Unique Keys and Salts

Security and more of it. Well you all remember this page right? it’s in your wp-config.php file, well friends WordPress creates all of them for you and.

That’s all, can’t wait for more features.

PS checked it out http://wordpress.org/development/2010/04/wordpress-3-0-beta-1/ download and test this yourself.

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