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The Best New Feature of WordPress 2.7

by Chris Wiegman on December 8th, 2008

I’ve been using WordPress 2.7 on all of my individual WordPress sites since the release of the first beta. With that said however, as I am still restricted to the 2.6 track for WordPress MU I thought I would take some time to really work with the two before I wrote anything on the new one.

Now a lot of bloggers have reviewed the new platform so far with particular focus to the new administration interface. While I’ll agree that this is a neat upgrade it isn’t the best feature. By far that would be the built-in updater for both plugins and the main installation itself as well as the ability to download and install plugins automatically with the click of a mouse. While this my seem trivial to most, anyone who works with websites can tell you that upgrading can often be more frustrating that the original installation. This new engine however makes it completely seamless and has so far proven a blessing for myself as I use a number of frequently updated plugins.

As nice as automatic updates is for WordPress however, it will be the ability to use such updates on WordPress MU that will really increase my love of the product!




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3 Comments
  1. Dean Comber permalink

    Chris, I’m assuming you run WP internally (what platform?), but I’ve had majour issues with automatic upgrades, specifically the plugin (WPAU) and .htaccess in the base of the installation. I’ve seen a few of my blogs get completely hosed when running this, especially items in the database. I externally host my WP installs (for $45/year, its just easier) and do not have any ability to connect to the MySQL database. Modifying the .htaccess file is another issue..unfortunately, since its hosted, there is no way to CHMOD the root directory (per their security settings). Thus, mods to .htaccess require emailing a .txt file to our host to reflect the appropriate changes.

    With that being said, I do love WP, but wish they would stay on a stable platform for awhile with out the slew of betas so often. I simply do not trust WPAU anymore and usually handle the upgrade with our host as required.

  2. Chris permalink

    Hi Dean,

    I agree the WPAU plugin had some issues, the built-in function in 2.7 however has worked flawlessly so far on both IIS and LAMP (I’ve been using it daily to upgrade to the nightly builds for testing). Even on my hosted accounts I haven’t had any problems, however if you don’t have chmod access to your files I could definitely see where that would be a problem…

    …Anyway, how did the GMAT go???

  3. Dean Comber permalink

    GMAT went okay, not bad but definitely not as bad as I thought. Really increased my score and got accepted to NIU’s MBA program. Yeah!

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