The newest version of our new favourite software has been released, and oh are we excited. WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” brings a huge amount of features that we’ve been waiting for, making the platform work well in almost any setting you provide.

One of the features we’re most looking forward to is the custom post types. This means that alongside regular Posts and Pages, we can have different types of, well, posts and pages. Let’s say we’re making an e-commerce site – we could use products with a separate template and set of features. This really makes a difference when using WordPress for more than just a blogging platform. While it’s still one of the best tools around for powering a blog, it’s now a real contender in the CMS market, rivalling the likes of Joomla!, Drupal and ModX.

As developers, we love the look of the new default theme, Twenty Ten. It brings us tools like custom menu structures, customisable backgrounds and different headers for each page. It’s stuff we’ve been doing ourselves for ages, and it’s great to see that the WordPress developers have given us a way of doing this natively.

What we love the most about this, though, is that the WordPress team are making things even easier for both developers and users. When we logged in to our Admin panel today, we saw an alert telling us to upgrade. So, we clicked the link, told it we were sure, and, well, it did everything for us! Same with plugins, and the “bulk update” feature, meaning that the same can be done with all your plugins. We even love the new lighter looking Admin panel along with its contextual help in case users get stuck.

We recommend you watch the official release video below, and if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to check out the new Twenty Ten API!

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