San Francisco (ip-192.com): WordPress just announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0. Main new features in WordPress 3.0 (ip-192.com reported here) include multi-domain and multi-site management from a single installation of the content management system (CMS), a streamlined administration menu, and the ability to add custom menus.
The coming release of WordPress 3.0 coincides with the 7th birthday of the popular blogging software. An application known as b2 (b2/cafelog) was the predecessor of WordPress. It was written in PHP for use with MySQL by Michel Valdrighi. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released WordPress in 2003 as a fork of b2. In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed, and many of its users migrated to WordPress.
The 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report concluded that WordPress enjoys the greatest brand strength of any open source content management systems. The program received numerous awards, including the Packt Open Source CMS Award in 2007 and the best Open Source CMS Award in 2009.
In its latest stable release 2.9.2, WordPress supports one blog per installation. A fork called WordPress Multi-User allows multiple blogs within one installation to be administered by a centralized maintainer.
The RC1 is available for download here. However, WordPress cautions users that the latest update is a release candidate and as such not intended for a production environment. “With over 20 million people using WordPress with a wide variety of configurations and hosting setups, it’s entirely possible that we’ve missed something,” says Jane Wells on the WordPress Blog. “So! For the brave of heart, please download the RC and test it out.”
Users encountering bugs are encouraged to file them on WordPress Trac. A WordPress tester mailing list is available here.
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