Lets do the rundown of the bugs and features.

New Features

Database Upgrade

The database got an upgrade.  It of course, tells you nowhere what it did.  I am still trying to find it.

Child Themes Can UN-Register Menus.

If you are piggybacking off of any theme or framework, you can now un-register that menu position, and then of course, register your own!  You can do this in the functions.php file of your child theme.

Tenty-Ten Enhancements

They seem more like preferences, but I’m not arguing.  They first allow attachment images to be centered.  No problem.  No big change there.

The next is the theme description.  Instead of just saying the default theme, they decided to bloat it with a bunch of garble.  It is now as follows:

The 2010 default theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.

No big deal, seeing as most people don’t really read that stuff anyway.

The next is stylesheet cleanup.  That I am all for because it removes unnecessary code and allows for faster load time.  You’ve got my thumbs up here.

Disabling Table Upgrades

When you are upgrading your wordpress, if necessary, it also upgrades your database that holds all of your information.  That isn’t really a big deal, right?

What if you run MU? What if you have thousands of users and thousands of posts?  Then it becomes a problem.  It is resource intensive and can sometimes mess up your database.  This really isn’t an option for everyone, but it is an option with the bigger blogs out there.  The tech guys are breathing a sigh of relief right now.

Bugs

50 misc. bugs were squashed in this release, some minor, some major omg bbq.

Export Errors

One of the biggest errors was the exporting error.  If you paid attention during upgrade, you will see that they threw out all of their built in exporting options and replaced them with plugins instead.  People just didn’t use it enough.  Well something kinda went wrong in that world, and when you exported, it threw a bunch of code junk your way. Well, they fixed it. Not really a whole lot more to say to what.

IPad

If you were making comments on your IPad, well, you weren’t.  The safari browser on it didn’t recognize a visual editor in your commenting as a field to type in, so you were up a creek.  They fixed this with the not well documented, but very cool, $is_iphone variable and you were commenting away in no time!

Misc. Others

They covered other things in the patch including visual UI fixes, typos, tag fixes, Class problems and dead code.  All in all, a good release, but mostly maintenance.  No real security issues dealt with here.  Which is good.

Until next time!

Resources:

Wordpress 3.0.1

Wordpress 3.0.1 Tickets

I severely hacked up my last theme, to make it my own, but with the release of 3.0, I knew it would only be a matter of time before they released an update.  StudioPress made it, so I knew they kept up their stuff.

So with a fresh start came a fresh theme and chance to do it right this time.  I had already found crap I didn’t like in twenty ten, so I started my usual opening of the editor and my hacking away and I was like, STOP child! Or more appropriately STOP, child! As in use a child theme.  That way you aren’t pinned into the usual trap.  So I did.  Now I have my very own child theme based upon Twenty Ten.  It is a pretty good theme after all, besides the little quirk here and there.

So I made my changes and I was good to go.  But what is a theme without the screenshot inside?  So I added mine, and now I am done.

Until next time.

Thanks Andrew, now stop bugging Jason about that MU Enabler

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There are a lot of changes happening with Wordpress 3.0, (due this May) and at first look, it doesn’t look like much.  Let me tell you, it is a lot more than you think.

The biggest change for us IMers out there: Wordpress and Wordpress MU are MERGING!!

That’s right! Wordpress and Wordpress MU are no longer separate files.  They are merging them into one install!

You can do a MU install with some manual coding steps and you will have a MU site just like that!  Easy to understand, easy to maintain, very intuitive.

Once MU has been initialized, you get a ton of extra options and settings to work with, and it is very easy to work with.

There is also a new default theme that comes with 3.0.  It is twenty ten and is much more robust than the previous one.

Also, custom menus are now available in 3.0.  If you want to add an external link, a custom page, a category, or others, you no longer have to have a coder edit your theme for you!  Just create, add, and go!

There has been a revamp in custom post types, beefing it way up!  Now you can easily create a vlog, or Podcasting site.

There is a lot more, but this is just a taste of what is to come.

Talk soon!

Custom Post Types Menu Example

MU Super Admin Menu Example:

http://bit.ly/aUSfPa

Awesomely Yours,

Cool Ryan

Of course you will be getting lifetime support, free upgrades, extensive video tutorials, tips, and instructions and more.  But what else will you get with this?

You will be getting a brand new, never released, Cool Ryan Exclusive.  No rebranded or PLR here.  Introducing…

But that’s not all!  I will also be including with Cool Ryan Easy Squeeze a pack of over 6000+ images to incorporate into your squeeze page.  Make it POP like you want! Pull those leads in!

Introducing, never before seen…

My WSO prelaunch is now active.  Get the light version of my Cool Ryan Easy Squeeze Wordpress Squeeze Page Theme.

Go Here:

Free WSO Prelaunch: You CAN Have A Killer Squeeze Page In Only 2 Minutes Flat …Guaranteed!

For instructions and tutorials, go to:

http://www.coolryaneasysqueeze.com/light/tutorials/

If you have picked it up, shoot over an email or comment below and let me know what you thought!

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It has two versions, Light and Premium.

Both versions will be launched as a WSO soon.  Keep a look out.

Talk soon.

It is pretty crazy the short amount of time in between releases sometimes.  It can be hard to keep up, especially when you are a Wordpress Developer.  (CURSE YOU WORDPRESS!)

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