{"id":929,"date":"2007-01-22T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2007-01-24T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T05:09:57","slug":"wordpress-21-has-been-released-and-it-may-be-the-perfect-platform-for-real-estate-web-sites-as-well-as-weblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/929\/wordpress-21-has-been-released-and-it-may-be-the-perfect-platform-for-real-estate-web-sites-as-well-as-weblogs\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.1 has been released, and it may be the perfect platform for real estate web sites as well as weblogs . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2007\/01\/ella-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.1 is out<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingpro.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/22\/wordpress-21-\"ella\"-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">More news from BloggingPro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Standout among the new features:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can set any &#8220;page&#8221; to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means is that there is no need to distinguish between your real estate web site and your local real estate weblog. The two can both run on WordPress, reaping the SEO advantages in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>Caveats: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingpro.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/19\/wordpress-21-mysql-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.1 wants MySQL 4.0 on the server side<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/help.godaddy.com\/article.php?article_id=221&#038;topic_id=67&#038;&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">If, like us, you&#8217;re hosted by GoDaddy.com, you&#8217;re all set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technosailor.com\/10-things-you-should-know-about-wordpress-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1<\/a>. Best news: A lot of legacy code that was to have been killed is retained, albeit deprecated, so most 2.0.x plug-ins should still work.<\/p>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog won&#8217;t be making the switch right away. I like to let other people find bugs in new software. But Cameron and I may start playing with it as a tool to use with single-property websites.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Further notice:<\/i><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com\/upgraded-to-wordpress-21\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Burslem at The Future of Real Estate Marketing has already taken the plunge<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 2.1 is out. More news from BloggingPro. Standout among the new features: You can set any &#8220;page&#8221; to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system. What this means is that there is no need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1259,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1259\/wordpress-213-and-2010-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":929,"position":0},"title":"WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 released","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogging Pro. 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