On June 17, 2010, WordPress Version 3.0, named for Thelonious, was released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug-fix release, read the WordPress Blog and see the Changelog for 3.0.

For Version 3.0, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to 15260, and the Trac revision was 15274.

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User Features # User Features

Check required php and mysql versions in the update and notify if the server environment does not meet those requirements

New wp_login_form() provides a simple login form for use anywhere

New WordPress logo for admin header

Place “Search Engines Blocked” mini-alert in the wp-admin header to prevent people from accidentally delisting themselves

Remove ‘Turbo’ link from admin header and remove Turbo section from the Tools->Tools panel

Renamed various menu items, for example Posts->Edit becomes Posts->Posts, and Links->Edit becomes Links->Links, and so on

Revised administration menu icons

Revised Gray Admin Color Scheme

Revised information in readme.html file

file Show login form upon email-sent for recover/reset passwords

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Add link so user can visit Dashboard after core upgrade

Move Tools->Upgrade menu option to Dashboard->Updates and overhaul of user interface so themes, plugins, and core upgrades under one panel

menu option to and overhaul of user interface so themes, plugins, and core upgrades under one panel New menu management (navigation) via Menus option under Appearances Menu (#11817)

Password nag for newly registered users

Split Right Now widget into Content | Discussion

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Allow for removing all tags in quick edit

Allow themes to style the visual editor with editor-style.css file, using add_editor_style() function

Enable custom taxonomy UI for pages as well as for posts

Improved revision comparison user interface

Shortlinks enabled, but still requires a plugin or theme support to fully realize this feature

Added capital_P_dangit() filter to change ‘WordPress’ to ‘WordPress’.

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Add FunnyOrDie.com oEmbed support

Allow Deletion of Media Alt text

Change Media UI labels from “Post Thumbnails” to “Featured Image”

Cleanup of the edit media screen

Don’t let “Crunching” overlap image name while uploading

Optimize scan for lost attachments

Support for additional file type extensions (Changesets 12581 and 13349)

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Order link categories by name, not count, on Add New/Edit Link page

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Add additional columns to the Posts Comments view

Allow configuration of number of comments to display Recent Comments dashboard module

Block comments for future posts and password protected posts (when password not provided)

Change to comments UI to show when a comment is replying to another, and link to the parent comment

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Add Details and Install Now action links under each plugin listed in Install Plugins

Allow Tab indenting, Shift-Tab (outdenting), and multi-line tabbing, in plugin editor

Upgrade plugins in bulk from the Plugins->Installed panel (#11542)

When deleting plugins, check for uninstall hooks, and warn of data deletion

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Add tag-to-category and category-to-tag converters to the Tools panel, add tag-to-category converter links to Posts->Post Tagspanel

Clean up OPML link export script

Expanded filter criteria in Tools->Export panel

Import WordPress fixes notices, attachments, and users

Removed Turbo menu item, but because Turbo files weren’t removed, Turbo may still work

All importers moved to the plugin repository (e.g. WordPress Importer)

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Allow “No role for this blog” to be chosen in Users->Add New panel

Added update_core, list_users, remove_users, add_users, promote_users, edit_theme_options, delete_themesand export Capabilities

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Removed Settings->Miscellaneous admin menu, moved uploads settings to Settings->Media panel

Revise Settings->General panel, change “Blog” reference to “Site”

Revise Gray Admin Color Scheme

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Install Process # Install Process

Choose username and password during installation rather than using ‘admin’

Show “Log In” button on install.php when “Already Installed”

Automatic generation of Security Keys during installation

Validate table_prefix in wp-config.php generator

Standardize information in wp-config-sample.php

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A better default excerpt; remove multiple white spaces from the excerpt as well as splitting safely on UTF8 strings

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Features Deferred to Later Versions # Features Deferred to Later Versions

These features didn’t make it into current release and have been designated for a future release.