New version 2.2 of popular open-source blog software Wordpress was just announced. Wordpress is the blog app of choice here. Wordpress is freely available, open source, and written in php with a mysql database. Wordpress.com also offers a hosted blog application, in the spirit of the Blogger.com model.

I think the coolest feature in the new version is a Blogger.com import wizard, allowing for a quick transition to Wordpress from Blogger. Blogger is a good service, but doesn’t let webmasters tweak things under the hood like we can, running Wordpress on our own servers.

The short list of what’s new:

Blogger.com importer
Protection from plugins and template edits that will break the site - I’d like to see how well this works!
speed improvements
goodies for developers - better documentation
improvements in API will allow other web tools and applications to update your Wordpress blog for you

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