On the Wordpress Codex for Wordpress 2.7, you will see a list of new features that Wordpress is planning to release for it’s next upcoming version of 2.7. When that release is I don’t know. But I do have here a list of what we could be seeing from the new version:
- Comments API
- Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
- Remove old/unused code
- Theme update api, like we do for plugins
- Some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
- Dashboard and write box rearranging
- One-click plugin installs
- oEmbed support, tied in with shortcodes
- Admin-only reply thing, for admin replies to comments (7435)
- Better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
- Core updating
- oAuth support
- A frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
- GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
- Duplicate post Tags UI for other taxonomies (6387)
- SWFUploader make it work with Flash 10
- Template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
- Plugin browser embedded
- Codepress code highlighting for template editing
- Php xref hosted on WordPress.org
- Tag intersections, all posts that have tag x AND y (We already do this)
- Menu editor
- Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (7151)
- Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags
- Sitemaps by default
- Comment threading
- Batch editing of posts
- Refresh of the importers
- Subscribe To Comments plugin in core?
- MPTT for hierarchies
- Gallery post_type
- Versioning of template edits
- Documentation links for functions used in currently edited template
This is not an official list of new features coming. But it is some that are being tossed around the drawing board. The ones in bold I would say would be very cool if they could have those ready for 2.7. And as for #3, I would have to say that even though this sounds general you cannot overlook the importance of that type of work to an open source project. By continuing to go back and clean out old code, the project only gets better and better. It’s good to know that Wordpress is constantly trying to make their CMS better and cleaner code wise at the same time.
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