Alright bloggers, web surfers and simple web enthusiasts, we’ve got some fascinating news for you all.

Indeed, the Internet community can’t stop buzzing about the forthcoming release of the new version of #1 blogging software – WordPress 3.0.

The official release of WordPress 3.0. was scheduled for May 2010 but now we have opportunity to mark the major advantages that this release will bring.

So, WordPress 3.0 will include the following features:

• MU or Multi-User option now will be available to all WordPress 3.0 users. In case you still have no idea what it’s all about we can tell that this is one of the best features that will allow you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions – from a single admin panel. Alright, admit it – we all have at least a couple of blogs to work with, right? So MU is a very good – and anticipated – feature.
• Another great innovation is the improvement of support for custom post types. These are great news for bloggers because it simplifies their work in creating and managing content, but it doesn’t mean that categories will disappear.
• Menu management is one of the best improvements in 3.0 release because of the Custom Navigation menu system that will be included into the core – with drag and drop and other usability features brought to various types of menus. This menu enlightens widget management, submenus system and much more.
• WordPress 3.0 will have a new default design theme that will be called 2010 – you can see the live demo of this design on official WordPress website. As you understand according to the new name of default theme every year WordPress will hopefully get a new default theme.

• Custom Background and Image support system will help you create new theme for your blog in a matter of minutes.
• WordPress 3.0 makes it possible to use the specific author templates. So, you can easily mark your own post or entry with your signature.
• Canonical Plugins will be available in WordPress 3.0. This means that from the moment it is launched you will be able to easily use your favorite plugins without being afraid that new release of WordPress will kill them.

Alright, these were the good news and now it is time to point out some disadvantages that WordPress still can’t get rid of (and most likely will not even in WordPress 3.0). It is not a secret that WordPress does have some peculiarities that are not quite comfortable for the users. So, here are some issues that were really irritating in older versions and that we wouldn’t want to see in further WordPress versions.

Road to wordpress 3.0

January 7, 2010	Identify major features slotted for 3.0 Begin merging MU files into trunk Begin development of new default theme Begin development of custom post types feature Begin development of menu management feature Patch bugs Work on patches for small enhancements
January 18, 2010	MU file merge should be complete Cutting edge types can start banging on the new MU integration Continue alpha development
February 15, 2010	Feature freeze
**From this point forward, there will be no more commits for enhancements or feature requests in this release cycle, only bug fixes.**
March 1, 2010	Begin public beta
March 29, 2010	Begin RC
April 13, 2010	Launch WordPress 3.0