As you must surely have noticed, being a developer, this weblog is served by Wordpress. Not only has there been a recent security upgrade to Wordpress, but the planned release of WP 2.2 has been delayed, primarily to allow for a thorough reimplementation of the tagging feature, according to lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
Not to be confused with categories, tags allow the user great flexibility in organizing content semantically and aid search engines in cataloguing the site.
We recently installed the security upgrade to a couple of our sites without realizing that the due date for version 2.2 was at hand. So we’re going to wait for the release version and do the remaining updates all at once. (Not that Wordpress upgrades aren’t easy–but haven’t you got plenty of other stuff to do?)
The previous release date for 2.2 was supposed to be April 23–just a few days away. It appears that we need only wait at most a few weeks to benefit from the enhanced features that this next major release will provide. Matt is saying “a week or two,” but we’re not holding him to it. Judging by the posts we’ve seen elsewhere, the user community seems unanimous in wanting things done right rather than holding to an arbitrary schedule.
Compare one or two weeks with the delays one expects with Microsoft releases–and these Wordpress guys are volunteers!
I, for one, am willing to wait. I think it’s going to be worth it.