Wordpress 2.6
A few days ago a new version of Wordpress, the popular blog publishing system and the one that is behind this blog, was released.
The new 2.6 version brings some exciting new features:
- Word count
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Here is a video preview of the new features:
Also, the complete release article can be found here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Sweet! I did not now that. That was pretty cool and instructive. Thanx!