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WordPress 2.6 Released
Posted By Lester Chan at 14:16 in WordPress
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WordPress 2.6 has been released.

Here are some new features of WordPress 2.6:

  • Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
  • Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
  • Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
  • Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
  • Word count
  • Image captions under your image
  • 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
  • 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

2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless. The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintain so everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

» Download WordPress 2.6

PS: The current version of my plugins should work well with WordPress 2.6 except WP-DownloadManager. Nevertheless, I will release updates to all of them tomorrow.


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axioblogger
Comment #1
  • 16:01
  • Tuesday, 15th July 2008

I like already started liking wordpress 2.6. I like how the plugin page link will notify you if there is an update required for any plugin. I also like how you can delete any plugin you want without toucing your host file manager

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #2
  • 16:08
  • Tuesday, 15th July 2008

Yea, WP2.6 has very nice touch up on the Plugins Management UI. I am also loving it. The ability to activate/deactivate many plugins at one time is great too.

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Victor
Comment #3
  • 19:21
  • Tuesday, 15th July 2008

Yes, waiting for WP-DownloadManager

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Michael
Comment #4
  • 19:58
  • Tuesday, 15th July 2008

Hi Lester,

hope you can release an update of your splendid downloadmanger plugin soon.

I’m only using it since a couple of days and much to my surprise it doesn’t work with wp 2.6

Thank you in advance

Michael

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #5
  • 20:02
  • Tuesday, 15th July 2008

Hi Guys, It will be release tomorrow for sure =)

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