WordPress 2.8 Release
Nowadays the great majority of Internet users are familiar with WordPress which represents the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Being started in 2003 by a small group of people at the moment it’s used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of milions of people every day.
One of the greatest things about WordPress, in addition to the fact that it’s absolutely free, is the feature of being completely customizable, thus giving the opportunity to use it for almost anything.
Since the appearance of the first version (0.7 on 27th of May, 2003) WordPress has been constantly updated introducing a lot of different improvements and offering greater functionality each and every time. Starting from the Version 1.0 most of the releases were named after well-known jazz musicians. After 1.5 release WordPress seemed to have something people really liked and it started to experience some fairly rapid growth (in a period of one year – from 2006 to 2007 – the amount of downloads increased in more than 2,5 times).
The last version – 2.8 “Baker” version named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker – representing the main topic of the given post was released on June 10th, 2009. Let’s check what new features and improvements of this release are.