A year’s work of development has gone into WordPress Version 3 which was recently released. For those unfamiliar with WordPress, WordPress is premium grade open source content management system, which focuses mainly on online publishing and blogging.
WordPress 3 is the thirteenth major release of WordPress, which includes a host of new features and bug fixes, along with a brand new theme titled Twnety Ten.
The most notable features in WordPress 3 is the merger of WordPress MU and the standard WordPress package. WordPress MU was a version of WordPress which had multi site support. Both application have now been merged into one. Custom content types is also now supported, though one would have to roll up their sleeves and code some extra lines of php into their WordPress theme function file to activate this feature.
Though WordPress was traditionally aimed at blogging, it is now growing up into a fully fledged and flexible content management system. According to the developers of WordPress, they would be paying greater attention to other parts of WordPress such as enhancing it’s plugin system to allow even further extensibility and flexibility.
