Firstly, I must say that I’m still having lots of problems using WordPress. I’m extremely poor when it comes to HTML, thus, I refused to transferred my personal blog and Filling station to own domains and deleted my blogs at New Blogger. New Blogger is so easy to use, it’s a bliss to any new blogger who is not tech savvy just like me.

When I first started my own domain, I kept asking my webhost tonnes of questions because I had no idea how to use it! It took me a long while the get the hang of WP and now I try not to alter too much. As long as the blog is working well, I’ll just leave it there.

However, I’m eager to try out the latest WordPress 2.2 because:

  • WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
  • Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
  • A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
  • Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
  • We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
  • Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
  • We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

So, I’ve emailed my webhost and see how fast can he upgrade all my sites. Then I will know if it’s more user-friendly than I thought. But he told me that the new version may not be suitable for all my templates, so I better stick to the older one and see how it goes.