WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Very nice new features especially the menu customization and preview. Some of my current clients will be very happy that they can finally see what the menu looks like without flying blind. Hopefully this also works with content blocks in menus as well.

The perfect thing of Wordpress is that it really helps to upgrade from (very) older version to the new one.<p>Yah, some months ago I upgraded a wordpress 2.3.3 (released in 2008, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codex.wordpress.org&#x2F;Version_2.3.3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codex.wordpress.org&#x2F;Version_2.3.3</a>) to version 4.1 :) I only needed to fix some minor problems!<p>I will wait 5 years from now to see if I can move from this 4.1 to another one. Sorry Wordpress 4.3 ;)

WordPress 4.3 named after Billie Holiday. Billie was an American jazz singer and songwriter. If we look at her life, it was a real struggle since her childhood. Attempted rape, protective custody, mother left, met again and became a prostitute. Arrested, sent to prison, served the due period and then started singing at night clubs. Her life was a chaos but she rose above the dirt and made her name in the Jazz singing.<p>WordPress 4.3 generated a lot of buzz since it was released. The most intriguing thing that I personally like was that Konstantin Obenland committed a release date for WordPress 4.3 and it was delivered on time.<p>Read more reactions from a blog post that we compiled at Cloudways blog.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudways.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wordpress-4-3-community-reviews&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudways.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wordpress-4-3-community-review...</a>

I&#x27;ve only once had to keep a WP site up and running, and although the code has a ton of smell, most of my work there consisted of only a few clicks. I&#x27;m surprised at how effective Wordpress is as a platform, even if it&#x27;s slow, and hope that they make a major version move to cleanup some of the cruft in their codebase soon. Dropping PHP4 constructors is a small step in the right direction, forcing plugin developers to do the same would be another. Kudos Wordpress, and thanks for the overview to the author (I&#x27;d never have bothered to read it otherwise)

So many people seem to dislike Wordpress but what alternatives are their if you want to host your own blog?

Blogspam.<p>Here&#x27;s the official announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;billie&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;billie&#x2F;</a>