WordPress 3.0 – “Thelonius” Advantages

Todays second post I want to share with my users is advantages of new wordpress it is wordpress 3.0 . So lets check it. WordPress 3.0, the long-awaited major version update to the world’s most popular blogging platform. The software, codenamed “Thelonius” now running your millions of websites.
The last major version, WordPress 2.9 was downloaded more than ten million times, a measure of the software’s popularity.so with the latest version 3.0 wordpress is now ready as the best  Content Management System (CMS) that is available to support personal, business, academic, and corporate Web sites as well as blogs.As this is a major release there are new features including a brand new Default WordPress Theme called TwentyTen, the ability to Customize Post Types and an excellent new Menu Manager.

First we just look at the features through this video
So let’s have a look at WordPress 3.0 features or advantages.
1) MU or Multi-User option :

Multi-User option is one of the best features of WordPress 3.0 that will allow you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions  from a single admin panel. Alright, admit it  we all have at least a couple of blogs to work with, right? So MU is a very good  feature.

2) Post Types Customization :

Till WordPress 2.9, WordPress has always enabled you to publish two types of content within a blog. These we recognize as blog Posts and Pages. Now in WordPress 3.0 you are able to define your own extra content types and also give them their own attributes. So now users can create any kind of content they want

3) New “Twenty Ten” the Ultimate New Theme of WordPress 3.0 :

WordPress 3.0 having a new default design theme called Twenty ten. you can see the live demo of this design on official WordPress website. As you understand according to the new name of default theme every year WordPress got a new default theme in wordpress 3.0.

4) New Custom Menu Management Feature :

Probably for users the most useful feature released with WordPress 3.0 is the brand new menu management system that has been included with the new version.New Custom Menu Management feature is also available in wordpress it  allows in creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.Menu management should be the most popular new function of WordPress3.0. It allows you to completely control the site’s navigation menu. Through easy drag and drop interface, users can freely create various combination of links: internal links, external links, categories, etc. And you can embed these custom menu themes anywhere and treat them as widgets.

5) Multi-Site WordPress :

In addition a new Multi-Site feature has been incorporated due to the merging of WordPress with WPMU, so that you can now build several WordPress blogs with the same software installation. So now you can manage several different websites each with a different domain or subdomains all from within a single installation of WordPress. This facility is not enabled by default as it will not be required by most users.

6) Custom Background and Image support system :

This option will help you create new theme for your blog in a matter of minutes.

7) Specific author templates :

Now it is possible in WordPress 3.0  to use the specific author templates. So, you can easily mark your own post or entry with your signature.

8) Canonical Plugins:
Canonical plugins  available in WordPress 3.0. This means that from the moment it is launched you will be able to easily use your favorite plugins without being afraid that new release of WordPress will kill them