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WordPress 2.2 has added a lot of nice new features. You can read about them here.

Two features that stand out for me are Atom 1.0 feeds and Comment Feeds. These can make your life easier for tracking your automatic web sites. Give them a try.

This helps a lot for those of us who use RSS in posts and feeds.

Atom 1.0 Feeds

Another war that has been fought for quite some time is WordPress support for the Atom 1.0 feed. Up until now, there has only beenm native Atom 0.3 support and RSS 2.0 was the preferred feed. Now, advocates of Atom can be happy with the standard XML that is produced by Atom 1.0 making it more portable in other environments.

Ever get tired of going back to sites to see if anyone responded to your comments. Now it is a lot easier to track comments through subscriptions to any section in WordPress. I want to add this to my themes to make them easier for me and my users.

Comment Feeds
There has always been a way to subscribe to the comments of a post. Just like everywhere in WordPress, adding /feed or, if you don’t use friendly permalinks, &feed=rss2 to the end of a single post will bring up the feed for the comments. It’s a great way to monitor conversation on a post you’ve commented on.

In WordPress 2.2, you can get comment feeds wherever you go - archives, categories, etc. So if you like James Joyner’s sports stuff but not so much his political or celebrity blogging, you can subscribe to just the commenting surrounding sports topics. This feed should be autodiscoverable by RSS feeds, but if not, theme authors will have to expose that to the world while designing their themes.

What do you think of WordPress 2.2? Love it? Hate it? Don’t be shy, give an opinion.

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