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There’s a new WordPress out… 2.1 and christened Ella in honour of the magnificent Ella Fitzgerald. I’ve had a quick look around it and it looks great.

My favourite changes:

• The ability to tab between rich text and plain html - hopefully they’ve also fixed up the bugs with the rich text editor and video embedding
• The uploads manager page… cool
• Autosave… just like gmail
• Spell checking on the visual editor
• You can set any page to be the front page of your site

I love WordPress so much, and I love it even more with these new changes. They’ve also decided on a new development cycle with more frequent releases, which means the perfect WordPress will only be sooner. I’m really looking out for an update version of WordPress mu — the multiple blog WordPress. I had a look at Movable Type because so many great blogs are based around it but it was impossible to install. And most of the good plugins are charged. Definitely staying with my 5 minute install WordPress baby.

NB Sorry for being away, I started a new job and it’s been way busy getting up to speed. Having a great time of it though!