WordPress 1.5

WordPress 1.5 was released last night, and I’ve updated the blog to use it. The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5 was painless in the extreme, and I’m very pleased so far with the updates I’ve seen. Things that make me tingly in the special place include:

• Blacklisting - comment spam is a big problem these days (47 for me this morning), and you don’t always want to moderate the comments - so you can blacklist trigger words to send the offending comment spiraling into the nether void, never to return.
• Static pages - I’m working on what I can do with this feature - my book collection and a resumé page seem likely candidates. The editing feature for the static pages is really quite excellent.
• New theme engine - I’m thrilled that Kubrick is the new default theme, although now I feel less special in having it. We’ll have to see what new themes come out in the near future.

Once I can find some time and delve deeper into the nuances of this new release, I’ll have to make another post detailing what I’ve found. In the meantime, it seems to be quite the nice little upgrade.