Over the past few years I’ve had the good fortune to work with a wide range of projects, from small single person business blogs to multinational systems. Interestingly, a common factor through all these projects has been “Can it be done quicker in WordPress?”.
In the latest version of the WordPress blogging platform, the developers have (finally) introduced Custom Post Types, allowing it to become more of a CMS without extensive use of plugins. Unfortunately, after installing the latest version, you’ll probably have noticed that there doesn’t immediatly appear to be any way to create your own. That’s because there is no UI to do this with – doh. The way to do this is to use the recently introducded method register_post_type().
Last night WordPress 3.0 was released to the general public. Having previewed it previously on this blog, nothing has really surprised me in terms of what has been updated – but it is still nice to go from release candidate to full version.
Set up is now quicker than ever, so give it a go on your local or dev servers. I would give it a few weeks before upgrading or deploying any live sites however, WordPress updates are notorious for their security leaks.
Check out the official WordPress TV introduction to the new features below!
If, like me, you use wordpress as a daily tool to design, develop and launch websites, you’ll probably be interested in what the creators over at WordPress are doing with their soon to be released update, version 3.0.
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