There’s a big release of the WordPress Blogging software today - 2.3. A summary of new features can be found on the WordPress Codex.

It seems that it will break some plugins, including Extended Live Archives which is a very cool way of displaying your past posts. It seems odd to me that WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to pull out a list of posts from individual categories.

It introduces tagging, and I’m waiting to see whether this makes a great difference to life online, or not very much at all. It’s been around for a while with various plugins.

I’l just select an example of one new feature, which should help SEO.
WWW or no-WWW? Based on your Blog Address, WordPress automatically redirects the other to your blog address.

Partial post URLs should find and redirect to the full URL.

Also, if you change the Post Slug, the old URL will redirect to the new one.