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WordPress 2.6 is here and working
By Mike | July 15, 2008
Well while I was away yesterday WordPress released the new version 2.6.
As soon as I added it I saw something that I love.
It will now let you know if your plugins have updates. A great new feature.
Now to the important thing. All the plugins I recommend work and the upgrade was painless. I will be adding it to each of my blogs as soon as possible.
There were 4 other big changes and a lot of little ones.
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Post revisions
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Press this!
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Shift Gears
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Theme preview
The two that really caught my eye though in just a quick glance are the plugin upgrade notice and the theme preview. I will have to play with the others before I can comment on them. The rest of the changes are listed below and are quoted from the WordPress blog.
Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
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.
Will be having fun testing some of the new features and will be reporting back in the future.
As always your comments and questions are welcomed.
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Mike,
I am always a bit hesitant to Upgrade. What does one really have to do to Upgrade?
Is it easy or a Monster?
Thanks,
Chuck