Now that we have covered some of the major features for users, (see bottom of this post for links) how about the features you probably have heard rumors of and wonder why I did not mention. Unfortunately a couple features I was looking forward to, are in fact developers features.
Are you a code hacker?
Developers features are called that because they are mostly geared towards… well… developers. These require changing codes, a bit of code hacking and having more than a basic knowledge of WordPress.
Multi-Site Feature
Combining WordPress MU with WordPress you now can install WordPress once and create many websites. This can mean sites for clients or multiple incidents for your own use. All it takes is adding one line of code to the WordPress configuration file and having a server that is strong enough to handle the added load. After adding it you will have a Network tab under your Tools tab.
Individual Author Templates
This is a feature blogs with multiple authors have been wanting. It allows each author on a blog to have their own template. This requires creating new author.php template files, yet one can be created for each author.
Custom Post Types
Sometimes you do no want to use posts or pages for your next WordPress entry. With other content management systems you have other options, but you can add new post types by adding code to the functions.php file. Then you can add as many new types as is necessary. These new post types will appear beneath the comments on your dashboard.
Custom Taxonomies
These are available again by adding some custom code. They can be added beneath one of your new post types to add a different type of tag. One example would be having a post type called books and creating an author taxonomy. Thus different book posts could be assigned to the respective author taxonomy. The new taxonomies will appear beneath the post type to which they are assigned.
What type of codes?
SixRevisions has information about the codes. Since I have not yet tried these I suggest you visit their site and follow their instructions if you want to add these features.
~ MJ Schrader
