As many of you may know Wordpress has just released it’s version 2.6 which you and I will need to upgrade to (as soon as we can all find some time of course!). The new version of course comes with some new features as well as many improvements. Here’s the video of the brief tour for Wordpress 2.6:
Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
This is basically a new feature that tracks content changes made to any posts or pages, similar to the way MediaWiki content management system works. This comes in extremely handy for those who run collaborative blogs with multiple writers.
Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
They developed a Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog
Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
In this release Wordpress stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds
Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when you are developing a theme and need to test it but don’t want everybody to see your ongoing development.
And the rest of Wordpress 2.6 Features & Improvements
- 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-configfile andwp-contentdirectories 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.
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