Wordpress 3 New Features Expand It's Web Design Potential

A rough BETA version of Wordpress 3 was made available last month. The latest version of Wordpress will strengthen it's appeal for web designers and businesses. Here are some of the noteworthy features.

• WordPress Multi-User (MU) - A single installation of the blogging platform will be able to power multiple websites, which makes it great for content publishers that need a central admin system. This new feature will also help organizations that need a central admin authority for multiple employee or sub blogs.
• Custom Content Types - In previous versions of Wordpress, there were only two content types: Blog posts and Pages. The new version of Wordpress will allow the web designer or admin to create new content types and define attributes. This could be very helpful for expanding Wordpress to become a general purpose CMS or, for instance, publish video content en masse.
• A New Default Theme - Wordpress will now sport a new default theme. The new theme, titled Twenty Ten, will be SEO focused. The theme will contain horizontal drop-down menu, clean typography, microformats, post thumbnails for custom headers and WYSIWYG.

Any problems with WP3? Well, there has been some chatter that Wordpress has a few bugs/glitches/unsavory issues, such as auto-save and revision problems that can cause your MySQL database to become heavy and slower than desired.