WordPress 2.3

I'm a tech-head, so I love upgrades particularly when they bring useful features.  For this reason, I'm taking a minute to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.  I can't say whether I'll be able to upgrade any further though, since I'm about to embark on some customisation here at ivovic.net.

Personal blogs are all about self-expression, so it's really almost impossible for me to restrain myself from hacking away at the incredibly hackable WordPress, and putting my personal stamp on things.  Unfortunately regular upgrades of the back-end software tend to work against that somewhat.

The authors have done a great job of allowing visual customisation without having to modify core files, but even so there are occasional updates which tend to break the theme-based layout, and there's only so much theme editing one wants to do in lieu of actually creating content for one's blog.

So, with version 2.3 we now have native tagging support and a feature I really love, which reduces the chance of 'not found' errors by creating automatic redirects to your post if you change the post slug (article link).  I think that'll do me for the foreseeable future... that is, until they decide to add something else I really like.