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I've spent a considerable amount of time during my life as a developer praising the benefits of Wordpress, specifically as a content management system. And there have been some bumps along the way, which often left me bemoaning my beloved system.

Today Matt Mullenweg and the lovely people at Wordpress.org released Wordpress 3.0, named Thelonious, which probably is the most CMS like Wordpress yet. The features include bespoke drag-and-drop menus, custom headers and background per post, and probably most important, custom post types. No more fiddling with language files when you wanted to hide the fact pages were pages and posts were simply blog posts. Brilliant. Nice little video below that shows off the new features:

I cannot wait till I get some free time to fiddle with this new system. I doubt I'll be upgrading my own website to be honest, the nature of hackery used to get the functionality needed would not sit well with an upgrade. Once I have a go I'll be posting a little update on here. Watch this space.