• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

WP Realm

WordPress news, community news, reviews and more from all over the world

  • News
  • Reviews
  • Tutorials
  • eCommerce
  • About
  • Contact

What Can You Expect From WordPress 3.0

7 April 2010 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

WordPressThose of you who actively look at what kind of news is presented to you in your WordPress dashboard already know WordPresss 3.0 beta 1 is released just before the weekend. Even though the actual release of WordPress 3.0 will be at least a couple of weeks away, it’s good to be prepared to the new stuff which WordPress 3.0 will bring to the table.

You of course already knew WordPress 3.0 will be sporting a brand new default theme, named Twenty Ten, but there are quite a few more new features that can improve your WordPress experience. Instead of listing every single feature, I thought it would be nice to make a list of those who already wrote about WordPress 3.0.

Custom Post Types

The Custom Post Type feature will make it possible to have a certain type of post show up with only those features that you really need when writing a post. I think Dougal sums it up very nicely:

A nice feature of custom post types is that you can customize which pieces of the editor appear for them. Don’t need excerpts? Turn them off. Don’t need post thumbnails (I mean “featured images”) or custom fields? Turn them off. Want to just use the excerpt field, and eliminate the WYSIWYG editor? You can do that.

More reading on Custom Post Types

  • First Impressions of Custom Post Type
  • Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
  • Custom Post Type UI Plugin for WordPress
  • Extending Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0

Menu

There’s been a lot of talk about new Menu feature and the way it looks now is certainly not set in stone yet, but you get a pretty good feel of what the WordPress 3.0 Menu function will look like after having looked at this video.

Multisite / Network

One of the first things we knew about WordPress 3.0 is that is would merge the stand-alone version of WordPress with the Multi User version we all know as WordPress MU. Alongside with Custom Post Types this to me is the best feature of WordPress 3.0.

More info can be found here

  • WordPress 3.0 Multisite Settings
  • Running on WordPress 3.0

Custom Background

A very clever feature which will find it’s way to a lot of themes, I’m sure, is the custom background feature. With this feature you can quite easily change the background of your design by simply uploading a preferred image and activating it. Twenty Ten already has this feature built in.

  • WordPress 3.0 Custom Background Support

Conclusion

I haven’t even scratched the surface when it comes to the total list of all the new stuff WordPress 3.0 will bring us, but I’m sure there’s plenty of information available behind all the links in this post that will help you get a good feel of what WordPress 3.0 is going to do for you. Should you be interested in all the new features than be sure to check out the WordPress 3.0 on the Codex. If you want to help out testing be sure to download the beta and any and all bugs you encounter can be reported via the wp-testers mailing list.

This article first appeared on BloggingPro: Get Ready for WordPress 3.0

ShareTweet

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: BloggingPro, Menu, WordPress 3.0

About Remkus de Vries

Avid and heavy WordPress user since 2005, so effectively a WordPress oldtimer. Started as developer and agency owner, now works as Head of Partner & Customer relationships at Servebolt.

Co-founded WordCamp Europe in 2012, and WordCamp Netherlands back in 2009.

Principal owner of WP Realm.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

SUBSCRIBE

Our posts to your inbox. It's a wonderful thing.

Recent Comments

  • Remkus de Vries on Building a Multilingual Website? These are the Questions to Ask.
  • Tuba on Building a Multilingual Website? These are the Questions to Ask.
  • Remkus de Vries on Adding Pages to Your RSS Feed in WordPress
  • Kris on Adding Pages to Your RSS Feed in WordPress
  • WPML, qTranslate eller Polylang: hvilken du skal velge og hvorfor? (2020) - My Blog on Building a Multilingual Website? These are the Questions to Ask.
Copyright © 2012 – 2022 WP Realm
Have you seen how fast Servebolt serves this site?