Information Madness

Good news for Wordpress Users. Wordpress, the most loved and used blogging platform just launched its version 3.2 in Beta. Wordpress 3.2 contains several new changes that includes dropped support for older technologies like PHP4 and MySQL4. If you want to use Wordpress 3.2, you are required to use PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0

Internet Explorer is no more supported by Wordpress 3.2. If your users are using IE6, they will be given a message to switch to newer browsers like Firefox or Chrome.

WordPress 3.2 also includes several performance improvements which make it faster than the earlier version. One of the newest feature for Wordpress 3.2 is Distraction-free Writing in the visual editor. WordPress 3.2 includes new look for Admin UI and a new default theme Twenty Eleven.

Here are some of the major changes that are included in WordPress 3.2:

• Performance improvements like you wouldn’t believe. What’s that mean? Things are faster!
• Distraction-free Writing. The visual editor’s full-screen composing experience has gotten a major overhaul, and is now available from HTML mode, too. More than ever, WordPress allows you to focus on what matters most — your content.
• Admin UI Refresh. The last major redesign of the WordPress admin was in 2008. This isn’t a major redesign, just a little facelift to keep us feeling young. WordPress turns 8 later this month, you know.
• New Default Theme. Introducing Twenty Eleven, based on the popular Duster theme. Rotating header images, post format support, and more.
• Browse Happy. WordPress is made to work with modern browsers. If you visit your Dashboard using an outdated web browser, we’ll let you know there’s a newer version available.
• Admin Bar. We’ve added more links to the admin bar to make it even more useful.
• WordPress has new minimum system requirements: PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.
• Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be supported.
• The favorites menu has been removed. If you’ve written any plugins that use this menu, it’s time to switch over to an admin bar placement.

Check out Wordpress 3.2 screenshots

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Distraction Free Writing

This has been part of the plan for quite some time now. In WordPress 3.1, the writing interface was cleaned up a little by hiding Custom Fields and such by default. In WordPress 3.2, a new distraction Free write panel is coming along that lets you make your writing interface full screen, so you can focus just on the content rather than other tidbits on the screen. The goal is to make the writing experience more lightweight and calming. (thanks Wpbeginner)

If you want to try Wordpress 3.2 before you can use it, You can visit wp3-2.wpbeginner.com, to try out Wordpress 3.2

You can download WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 from here.