WordPress has released the latest version of it popular blogging tool- version 3.0 with new features improvement also new default theme. This version is the thirteenth major release of WordPress. You can upgrade to new version through your dashboard. Overall there is no change in the dashboard or the layout. There is a new option to create a menu which by default needs to be supported on your theme.
You can easily create menus and add links to each item in the menu.
Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies.
You can check out all the features of new WordPress 3.0 using the Twenty Ten theme included.
Here is a video of WordPress 3.0 features
You can upgrade to latest version from your dashboard itself.
Download WordPress 3.0
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Backing up data is one of the most important things to do and the same holds good for websites as well. If you have a WordPress powered blog, you can back up the blog online with iDrive. iDrive provides you with a WordPress plugin to back up the entire blog to cloud based storage. iDrive provides 2GB storage space for free account. Once you install the plugin, set up a free account and then login.
iDrive will show the current disk space and also last backup performed. The backup schedule is once a day.
There is also option to restore the back up. The interface is very simple and nothing to complicate users.
Features
- Immediate backup of WordPress blog data, both files as well as MySQL data dump, into your IDrive online backup account
- Scheduled backups occur after 12 midnight every day
- Immediate restore of backed up data from your IDrive online backup account
- Smart backup – Only the first backup transfers entire WordPress content, subsequent backups are incremental where only the modified data is backed up
- Automatic notification via email on backup / restore status
- Secure transfer of data to IDrive server using SSL. Non SSL transfer option is also available for non SSL servers
- Detailed logging of backup / restore operations
For most of the blogs, 2GB of space should be good enough to back up data, in case the space is not sufficient, you can consider the paid plans.
iDrive Backup for WordPress
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Whenever you enter a 404 error on your WordPress blog, it returns a default page error page which states “I’m sorry, I can’t find what you are looking for.” Bing 404 is a great new plugin that returns a page of intelligent search results in place of the unhelpful WordPress 404 error page by using keywords extracted from the dead URL. You can customize the results to be shown only from your domain or from other domains as well.
Steps to Use the plugin:
- Download the Plugin from WordPress plugin
- Get a Bing App ID (You need to have a Windows Live ID to create Bing app.
- Activate the plugin and enter your Bing ID.
- Now check for blog for any 404 page and see the difference.
The plugin provides you with few other options.
This plugin should work out-of-the-box with most themes using the included 404 template. You can also define your own to fine tune the look and feel to match your theme. Detailed tutorial on how to use the plugin is available here.
Download Bing 404 for WordPress
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I noticed today that WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 was up for grabs on WordPress’ site and although I’m excited, we’re not in any rush to make to move. Disk Inserted is a stable environment and although I’d love to test out Beta 1, it’s not coming to DI anytime soon… unless it becomes a stable release, of course! 
Download it, test it, file bugs.
What’s new? All of this.
Good hunting, all you testers.
We here at Disk Inserted use WordPress to manage the site and house our blog. Our theme is also called iNove and is a brilliant work of art by NeoEase. After many (many, many, many…) design changes, we keep coming back to iNove as our favorite. Please support him and check out his work!
(Information courtesy of WordPress.org)
