1. WordPress 3.0 What’s next for the most popular CMS on the planet? 1

3. Stand alone or Multisite (formerly WordPress MU)

4. Custom Post Types

5. New Default Theme (YAY!)

6. Child Themes

7. Theme Menu Builder2

9. Bulk updates (themes/plugins)

10. Custom Taxonomies

11. Better post revision management (be careful here)

12. Everything is subject to change3

14. Backup disk files

15. If you can, test first

16. Should be backwards compatible

17. Validations to check PHP and MySQL4

19. Security Key created at install

20. Login Lockdown (plug-in)

21. File permissions

22. Change passwords often (users and database)

23. WP Firewall Plug-in5

24. Initial user setup 6

25. security One of the most common mistakes people make with a self hosted version of WordPress is failing to apply updates. http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress 7

27. Built-in Theme Finder

28. Slew of new hooks for theme developers (gives a much better user experience)

29. New page templates

30. Theme frameworks8

31. Twenty ten theme 9

33. Built-in Theme Finder

34. Slew of new hooks for theme developers (gives a much better user experience)

35. New page templates

36. Theme frameworks10

38. Author Template

39. Frontpage Template

40. Single Post Template

41. Admin Post Template11

43. Built-in Theme Finder

44. Slew of new hooks for theme developers (gives a much better user experience)

45. New page templates

46. Theme frameworks12

47. themes Theme Frameworks: Thesis Headway (not free, and not General Public License - GPL) 13

48. Theme frameworks (not free, and not General Public License - GPL) 14

49. Theme frameworks 15 FREE Headway License

51. Google XMl Sitemap

52. Blubrry Power Press for Podcasting

53. BuddyPress for Community Building16

55. WP Touch iPhone Theme

56. WP-DB-Backup (install it, configure it, use it)

57. By far the best spam catcher on the plane it Akismet17

58. Q/A – Ask away Thank you! Thom Allen twitter.com/ThomAllen facebook.com/ThomAllen thom@pressdev.com http://pressdev.com Web Design - WordPress – Facebook - iPhone Watch for upcoming WordPress Bootcamps 18