I’ve just finished upgrading darxr.net to Wordpress 2.1. Everything went very smoothly, all my existing plugins and my own Social Bookmarks Widget are working fine with 2.1.

Some new features in 2.1 include the ability to save pages as drafts, up till now only posts could be saved as drafts along with the ability to set a page as the front page of the site rather than the actual blog itself. There is also a new “Visual” WYSIWYG editor, which is enabled by default, but the older “Code” editor is still available at the click of a mouse.

Another much welcomed feature of the new editor is the Autosave feature. There’s nothing worse than spending hours on a post and then losing everything when your browser crashes or the power cuts out.

There is improved Import/Export functionality making it easier to move to Wordpress, or away from it as the case may be, but with all these new features, who’d want to?