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On December 10th, 2008, WordPress Version 2.7, named for American jazz great John Coltrane, was released to the public. For more information on this extensive enhancement and bug-fix release, read the Development Blog and see the Changelog for 2.7.

For Version 2.7, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to 9872...

Wordpress has already become a very popular free blog engine mostly thanks to the extensibility with the help of plug-ins. Since version 2.1 famous Wordpress Widgets were integrated. This mechanism allows to manage blocks in sidebar. In more difficult sites which are built with WP often there is a need of using different sidebars on different pages. Here come troubles with using widgets. The majority of widgets can be added only once. You can easily find articles on how to create widgets in the Internet. The main article is on Wordpress codex site (read wordpress widgets API article)....

We had no time to get used to one WordPress as the next was released. Still it is rather good than bad. Let’s look at the new WordPress numbered 2.7.

I would like to draw your attention to Turbo button in Tools. The developers took care of the admin area cache using Google Gears. Google Gears is already in use in such Google services as Google Docs, Google Reader. The main objective of this technology is the use of this service offline, and synchronizing of the local version with online when there you are online again. It is easier to explain this way: when you are offline, you can use the services, and when you are online again, all the changes will be written into the service...

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are management systems. It is possible to create functional and easy manageable sites without serious financial expenses on their basis. We have decided to compare these systems among themselves and to tell about it in comprehensible language. We have chosen the most important aspects which most likely will interest the ordinary user...