Although it has been avail­able for a few days now, WordPress 2.0 ‘Duke’ is now official.

In fact has already had been down­loaded more than 33,000 times as I write this! You can down­load it from the revamped WordPress.org web site.

There is a lot of new code in this release, most of which is con­cerned with either the Admin­is­tra­tion inter­face, espe­cially the WYSIWYG write inter­face, or under the hood stuff which will bene­fit plu­gin and theme developers. There are a whole bunch of bug fixes too.

There are some very com­pel­ling reas­ons to upgrade to this new ver­sion, but there are a whole bunch of reas­ons to hold off too: Con­tinue read­ing →