It was only a couple days ago I finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  Guess what?  There’s a new (argh!!!) version available for download - WordPress 2.2.  And yes, yours truly has upgraded again to take advantage of all the new features.

Here is a list of new features for WordPress 2.2 (Source: WordPress.org):

• WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes

• Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard specand including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface

• A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login

• Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page

• Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server

• WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari

If you’re new to the blog world and looking to manage your own domain, I would definitely recommend WordPress over those out-of-the-box services like Blogspot, MySpace, etc.

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