For those of you who used to write a blog or create a website, the name of WordPress certainly is not foreign to you. Yes, WordPress is a blog and CMS applications are most favored by the developers around the world.
On July 4, 2011, released the latest version of WordPress, which is Wordpres 3.2. The focus of this release is the latest version 3.2 makes WordPress get faster, lighter, and slimmer.
What are the new features in WordPress 3.2?
Version of PHP and MySQL
One of the major technical changes in WordPress 3.2 is to disable support on older versions of PHP and MySQL.
Using PHP 5 and MySQL 5 means that the upcoming version of WordPress will be lighter, have more features, and more optimal performance.
The new WordPress minimum requirements are PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.
We can tell if a web server is the way we meet the minimum requirements to install the plug-in Health Check of the WordPress directory. In this way we can know whether the version of PHP and MySQL that we run are suitable for WordPress 3.2 or not.
Not Support IE6
WordPress 3.2 left on IE6 support, because many new features that can not be played with the browser is an older model.
For users of IE 6, Switch to a more modern browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or IE 9.
New Default Theme
In this version, WordPress includes a new theme called Twenty Eleven. This theme is the successor wordpress themes developed by a team Duster Automatic (the developers WordPress.com), an impressive theme.
Twenty Eleven Theme is an improvement of Duster features. This increase makes it more stable and stronger. Theme is clean and modern and flexible layout support. This means the same blog or website will look cool on the phone, iPad or desktop monitor with a variety of sizes.
Fullscreen Editing
One of the best new features in WordPress 3.2 is the addition of an interference-free writing mode, which is a facility to write a post with a box full browser screen.
With this feature users can freely to write each paragraph without being interrupted by sidebars, menus and options that make narrow screen writing.
New Dashboard Design
WordPress 3.2 admin page design has also been enhanced. The new interface appears cleaner, leaner, and lighter / faster.
If you want to try WordPress 3.2 your own computer, please download in Indonesia of a WordPress page, or if you use a web hosting service, please install via Fantastico in CPanel. If you already have a blog or website with WordPress please try to upgrade an older version of your WordPress dashboard (do not forget the previous backup).
