Matt Mullenweg has released Wordpress 2.1, an open source (GPL) blog engine based on PHP and MySQL. New features include:
- Autosave posts
- A tabbed editor to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing
- XML import and export of blogs
- Spell checking
- Search engine privacy option to indicate a blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed
- Any page can be the front page of your site
- Pages can now be drafts or private.
- Comment feeds include all the comments
- Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
- Scheduled events
- Image and thumbnail API allows for richer media plugins.
Increasingly it seems possible to run an entire site in WordPress, if only someone could convince Matt to stop using GET for unsafe operations. :-(
