WordPress 2.7 is here! As usual the WordPress community has been very active even when WordPress 2.7 was in beta and were publishing a lot of good resources. I have been reading them and collecting them.
What’s new in WordPress 2.7
- Ten New Features in WordPress 2.7
Demetris of op111.net has posted on 10 new features in WordPress 2.7. He talks about Mass Edit posts/pages, paging in comments, Inline quick edit, etc - WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements
Otto dissects the new comment functionality in WordPress 2.7. He shows you how to create a WordPress 2.7 compatible coments.php. - WordPress 2.7 Keyboard Shortcuts
WordPress 2.7 comes with keyboard shortcuts to the admin interface to make browse and moderating easier. Kyle of WP Hacks also has an useful post that goes into WordPress 2.7 keyboard shortcuts. - WordPress 2.7 Publish Module
Mark Jacquith explains in this cool video, what’s new in the Publish module. Slightly older but still relevant if you want to know what’s new in 2.7. - An In-Depth Look at 2.7 Updates
Theme Forest blog looks at the new updates in WordPress 2.7 with plenty of screenshots. If you are looking to get a quick overview of new things in WordPress 2.7, this is the post to read. - Is Core Update Feature Compatible with my WebHost?
WordPress 2.7 introduces core update feature that makes upgrading WordPress manually obsolete in the future. WP Hacks shows you how to find out if you web host is compatible for this core update feature in 2.7. - 5 Amazing New Features in WordPress 2.7
Nettus lists 5 cool features in WordPress 2.7 with a lot of eye candy. Have at it. - WordPress 2.7 - Initital Impressions
Stylized Web has posted their initial impressions on WordPress 2.7. - WordPress 2.7 - 20 Must See Features
A Mashable.com list of 20 must see features in 2.7
Upgrading to WordPress 2.7
Before you upgrade to WordPress 2.7, here are a few things to check:
- Official Upgrade Instructions
Also check the extended upgrade instructions.
- Is my theme WordPress 2.7 compatible?
Nathan Rice answers this probably most asked question when it comes to upgrading WordPress eloquently. Short verdict. Yes, it is compatible. Read the post for full details as to why. - Check for Plugin Compatibility
WordPress Codex has a list of plugins that are compatible with 2.7 and those that are known to have issues with 2.7. Check this list before you upgrade. - WordPress 2.7 Theme Compatibility
WordPress Codex also sports a list of themes that are compatible with WordPress 2.7. Find out if yours is listed. if not, follow Nathan’s advice. - WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin by Keith
You can still use WPAU to easily upgrade to WP 2.7. I confirmed this personally with Keith via IM. It’s a bit sad that WPAU will be no more after 2.7 as WordPress gets this feature built in. Thanks for this
contribution buddy!
- Plugin Compatibility Notes
This WordPress plugins lets you know of potential plugins compatibility issues by adding the WordPress versions your current installed plugins are compatible with. So, instead of upgrading and trying to find out which ones are broke, you can see ahead which ones could give you
problems. - How To Upgrade Automatically The Last Time To WordPress 2.7 In 5 Minutes!
Great tutorial showing you how to upgrade easily to the current release. - WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips
Lorelle has posted an insane amount of tips tricks and gotchas when it comes to upgrading to WordPress 2.7. Check it out before you touch yours. - 2.7 Upgrade in One Line
For those who love the command line, Hack a day has a one-line command for upgrading WordPress to 2.7.
Advanced WordPress 2.7 Resources
If you are a WordPress theme or plugin developer, a few of these articles could come in handy to make your theme or plugin compatible with WordPress 2.7 if you haven’t already done so.
- Making Your Theme Comments Compatble with 2.7 & Earlier Versions
Justin Tadlock delves into this nice topic and shows you how you can make your theme compatible with WordPress 2.7 as well as make it backwards compatibe with earlier versions. Aimed at theme developers. - New Page Menu in WordPress 2.7
Another ustin Tadlock article shows you how the new function wp_page_menu() removes a lot of the work you may do with using wp_list_pages() function. - Definitive Sticky Posts Guide
Sticky posts is a new feature in 2.7. Nathan Rice has an excellent guide on how to use, create and style sticky posts! - Getting Your Plugins & Themes Ready for WordPress 2.7
Again WordPress Codex is the best place for any info related to WordPress. This post shows you how to migrate your plugins and themes so it’s compatible with WordPress 2.7. - Top Level Menu in WordPress 2.7
WP Engineer shows us how to add icons to menus in the top level in the admin interface. - How to Improve WordPress Plugins
Again, WP Engineer shows plugin authors how they can take advantage of the new 2.7 vertical menu and add icons to their plugin menu. - 2.7 Comment Classes
Fun with WordPress blog explains how the new WordPress 2.7 Comment Classes look when you view it visually. This would help anyone tweaking the comments.php file for styling. - Blogging Tips Themes Enhancements - I
Shows you how to enhance your theme for WP 2.7. - Blogging Tips Themes Enhancements - II
Sarah shows you how to make use of the new comment options. - Blogging Tips Themes Enhancements - III
Sarah shows you how to make use of the new comment features.
Plugins for WordPress 2.7
- Compatibility Notes
Compatibility Notes is a simple WordPress plugin that will attach a list of supported WordPress versions to every plugin’s description on the “Plugins” page. - Post Notes
On its own, this plugin adds a text area on the sidebar of the add and edit post pages so that users can add notes for themselves or others. - 20+ WordPress 2.7 Compatible plugins
Mashable has put together a great list of plugins your shiny new 2.7 install can handle. - Make Simple Tags Plugin Work
Ask VG has this hack to make Simple Tags plugin work in WordPress 2.7 - Top WordPress Plugins
A continously updated list of WordPress plugins by yours truly. Bookmark this to find new WP 2.7 compatible plugins. - 2.7 Plugin Compatibility List
WordPress
Codex has a list of plugins that are compatible with 2.7 and those that
are known to have issues with 2.7. Check this list before you upgrade.
And, if you are wondering with so many significant changes in 2.7, why wasn’t it named as 3.0, this post Why 2.7 is not 3.0 will clear that up for you.
Also, Six Apart, the company behind the rival blog platform Movable Type has come out with WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Guide again!
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December 11th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Excellent post with some great resources, thanks for sending it over via SU. Will definitely save me some time regarding my own decision about when to upgrade various blogs. Gave it a thumbs up naturally
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Wow, what a great resource page. I am new to Wordpress and am trying to learn all I can. So far I am really impressed with what it can do and this new version looks even more amazing. I will definitely keep this page bookmarked for information I will need as I go along.
Is there a lot of difference between Wordpress on my server and Wordpress.com? I have been thinking of trying a free hosted blog on .com to see how it works.
Thanks for all the great information.
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Nice list.
This will definitely help with the move to 2.7. Stumbled!
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Great resources + links man. Stumbled (truly deserved one!)
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Great post buddy, definitely useful for people who are looking to move towards WP 2.7, stumbled
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December 12th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for all the great resources. I hope this can be useful for me!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Wow it looks great, im going to update later today
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:49 am
What a list! I just upgraded last night and was surprised to see so much new stuff and the new interface with WP 2.7. Will be interesting to browse through all of it and see what’s up.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Thanks for these useful links
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December 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
always nice to see you have done your research yet again:)
December 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Thanks for mentioning our tutorials, one of my personal blog notaniche.com and wpengineer.com
Great list of helpful links.
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
great resource!
delicioused,
and subscribed.
I’m already nostalgic about the last admin dashboard but i reckon we’ll get to love it.
Just noticed the comment preview and latest post from commenter !!
What is that plugin you’re using shankrila ?
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December 14th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Hi Best list I have seen I did upgrade and will use some the resources mentioned
Good to see a unselfish blogger that is Do FOLLOW and mine is also.
Thanks for all the hard work appreciate it
Stumbled
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December 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Marvelous post! keep them coming!!
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December 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Maurice, thank you so much for stumbling it and leaving this cool comment!
Andy, welcome to ShanKri-la and thanks for the kind words. WordPress on your server is extra work for you but gives you a lot more flexibility than having a WordPress.com blog. Think of custom themes, plugins of your choice. One of the biggest plus with running it in your server is the monetization opportunities. But, if you are just getting your feet wet in blogging, WordPress.com is a great place to get started and get yourself familiar with WordPress admin interface, etc. I started with a WordPress.com blog myself before moving on to a self-hosted WordPress blog. Good luck and hope to see you around.
Fahad & Syahid, thanks a lot friends.
December 14th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Keith, thanks a lot for the stumble and the great review of this post at TB! I am so humbled.
JR, there is a lot of changes in the admin but hopefully they make your tasks easier than making it harder to find things.
December 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Alex, you are welcome. I am a regular reader of your WpEngineer blog and love the work you do with WordPress although I am bad at leaving comments! Thanks for dropping by.
The plugin I am using is called Live Comment Preview and CommentLuv. You can find those and some of the best WordPress plugins in my Top WordPress Plugins post.
Coulson, thank you, thank you and thank you.
December 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
PotPolitics & Raju, thanks for the kind words. Your words give me the inspiration to write more.
December 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
thanks for the reply - great top & best plugins resource list as well
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December 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Is “All in One SEO Pack” plugin is compatible with 2.7
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December 17th, 2008 at 1:18 am
wow, great scoop here. appreciate it.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Great stuff!
December 19th, 2008 at 2:41 am
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Wow! That’s some list. I’m so far behind in so many things, that I won’t have time to read them all, but I’m going to try. I just updated to 2.7 on one of my blogs and will do the other one soon and I’m looking at how my plugins work with 2.7 and there’s lots in there which is really relevant to me. Thanks K.
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December 19th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Been searching for a place which gives all this information. Just had a really good read of your post and this is great to know for when I move over to 2.7. cheers.
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December 20th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
How do you possibly find time to put these huge list posts together? I’ve just updated a few of my blogs to 2.7 and must say I like it quite a bit. The new dashboard is just awesome. Much more intuitive than the old one in my opinion.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
That is really an awesome post on all new wordpress 2.7. I had many doubts regarding compatibility of plugins which I have in wordpress 2.6. That plugin works like a magic and I am going to upgrade all my blogs(I haven’t too many plugins but a little which i have are very important).
December 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
That’s an awesome list, it must took you a lot of time to get it together. Thank’s
December 26th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I upgraded to 2.7 this morning. Took all of ten minutes to do manually and I had no problems.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Are the bugs cleared out??? Or is this the final masterpiece??????
January 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
This is a great post. it really takes a lot of the work out of tracking down all the good stuff for wordpress 2.7. thanks
January 21st, 2009 at 5:37 am
hi! thanx for this link to An In-Depth Look at 2.7 Updates!!! i was searching for it for about two hours, but only SHankri-la could give me the right link! thanx very much for the job you’ve done!
January 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Great list of wordpress hacks tips and tuorials. I bookmakrd the page so i can find more when i need them. This has to be one of the better list of wordpress tutorials and hacks i have seen.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:03 am
Great info. I will use some of the plugins.
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February 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 am
Great tips. I have done some of the tips.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
This also a great plugin list for Wordpress 2.7
http://www.blogtecnico.com/blogging-2/wordpress-blogging-2/07/02/wordpress-ecco-la-lista-completa-dei-plugin-compatibili-con-la-versione-27.html
February 18th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Wordpress is simply the best and with each major upgrade, i love it even more. What a creative and defining tool of the internet!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Wordpress is such a good website tool.
Thanks for the tips, Andy
February 20th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
a lot of useful information! thanks for giving me this information so I can know the advantages!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I installed the new upgrade last night and I’m really satisfied. The new version is great. I upgraded from WP 2.3 and this is a completly new generation of Wordpress.
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February 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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March 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
This is a fantastic resource post. You did a great job of getting all of thisinformation rounded up and placed onto one page. I’m definitely sharing this page with my buddies. Great work. I appreciate all the effort.