Have now upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.1. Most of the new features will be invisible to readers, as they should be: they’re mainly concerned with content management and foiling hackers. A big bonus for me is a new version of the invaluable Akismet anti-spam feature: it can now be set to automatically discard detected spam comments on older posts. That saves me time since there are very few false positives when it comes to spam on older posts.
There are basically two differences you might notice, and they’re both related to plug-ins.
- The ’subscribe to comments’ function now works properly, thanks to a new version of the plug-in it’s using.
- The category cloud had to be replaced with a different plug-in. Looks a bit big and ungainly at the moment – will tweak over time.
The best improvement is the anti-spam feature.