WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” has just hit the Internet few days ago. I did not upgrade yet, because it seems unnecessary for me at the moment. But somehow, I made the upgrade on all localhost, to test and to built better framework for myself.

There are, a few features that saved my time to work on and to explain. Here are them…

Menu ordering

I’m sure one of the most talked about features in WordPress 3.0 is the menu. I’ve just made some learning on it. Though it may give me headache (multi-multilevel dropdown menu for some newbie) on how many level to do with.

Page redirection

This is related to the menu function. Previously, if you notice, many theme comes with an instruction telling you how to use custom field to do re-direction. Key in “redirect” for name then key in the address in value, change the page template. Well, no biggy now, just a link and name of the link it can be up in your menu by your order.

Now I know why woothemes become so huge with just a WordPress theme

Page attributes

Since you can actually order your menu and place any page as parent and child page. You don’t really need the page attribute.

Unless you want to make it easier for you to not use “search” and go straight to clicking the page, you now don’t need to even care about the “Parent” or “Order”, they are just unnecessary in WordPress 3.0. The only thing I can think of using them is… Neatness.

If each major release can help so much, I think it worth the upgrade time. Beside, it only takes about 3 to 6 months for a minor upgrade