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WordPress 2.2

Published on 17^th May 2007 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

WordPress 2.2 made its debut yesterday and, after a spot of cautious testing, I upgraded my hillwalking blog to use it. The reason for the testing was that self-hosted WordPress blogs can now have what WordPress.com blogs have had for a while: built-in widget capability. It was this that upped my level of caution, but the changes weren't as drastic as I had feared: you need to amend your theme for widgets to be supported, and not having done this causes no untoward effects. Making themes widget compatible is something that Automattic describe in a helpful article on their website. Other than this, WordPress 2.2 doesn't cause much upheaval and, apart from pieces of JavaScript snagging on occasions in Firefox, all seems well. I am still sitting on the fence as regards those widgets, though...

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