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7 NEW Developer features with Wordpress 2.3
Wordpress September 25th, 2007
Visited 1683 times, 1 so far todayIf you’re a developer you’ll be interested in these 7 new features:
- Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
- We’re using the new jQuery whis is “800% faster.”
- Behind the user-facing tags system is a really kickass taxonomy system which, which adds a ton of flexibility. It’s probably the biggest schema upgrade since version 1.5.
- The importers have been revamped to be more memory efficient, and you can now add an importer through a plugin.
- Through hooks and filters you can now override the update system, the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser, and tons more than you could in 2.2.
- The new $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.
- Finally there were over 351 tickets in Trac closed for this release, with over a hundred people contributing. This is the polish, the hundreds of tiny bug fixes and features that make WordPress what it is.
Before you upgrade you may want to check out our Preparing for 2.3 post.

