Solo Technology

I’m a bit late with this one (that whole dead computer thing) but WordPress 2.2 was announced this week. Nothing too exciting on the surface. In fact, I was going to skip it but I just read that there are some security fixes included. Suppose I should do the upgrades then.

You widget lovers will love that widgets are now included. For more on what’s new or different, Aaron has once again provided a Top 10 Things You Should Know post that’s definitely worth a look.

That being said, there is one compelling feature that I found at Il Filosofo:

You can now set your site’s “home” and “siteurl” values in the wp-config.php file
Say you have a production site and a mirror development site. Before 2.2, if you copied the database from one to the other, you’d have to edit the database to change the url options. Now, you can set the “home” and “siteurl” options in the wp-config.php file:define('WP_HOME', 'http://www.ilfilosofo.com');define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://www.ilfilosofo.com/wordpress');

That means that if you use different config files, you can dump the database from one site to the other without making any option changes. It’s going to be a big time-saver for me.

Big time saver for me too! Going to love that little feature — will make setting up test installs a lot easier.

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