{"id":172,"date":"2008-06-24T14:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-06-24T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T06:56:43","slug":"wordpress-26-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/24\/wordpress-26-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.6 Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boren.nu\/\">Ryan<\/a> has announced the availability of <a href=\"http:\/\/boren.nu\/archives\/2008\/06\/23\/wordpress-26-beta-1\/\">WordPress 2.6 Beta 1<\/a>. The final release of WordPress 2.6 should happen between 7th July 2008 to 14th July 2008 according to <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.wordpress.org\/roadmap\">WordPress Trac&#8217;s Roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 2.6 is not a big release compared to WordPress 2.5, but hopefully it will not break any plugins as I just updated my plugins for WordPress 2.5.<\/p>\n<p>I still think that WordPress should slow down their pace of development if not it will be hard for plugin authors to keep up with it as everytime a major version of WordPress comes out, plugins always breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the features of WordPress 2.6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post Revisioning<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cPress This\u201d bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting<\/li>\n<li>Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads<\/li>\n<li>A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts<\/li>\n<li>Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com<\/li>\n<li>Built-in word counting in the post editor<\/li>\n<li>The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious<\/li>\n<li>XML-RPC API for changing blog options<\/li>\n<li>Better SSL support for the Admin<\/li>\n<li>Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to relocate your content directory<\/li>\n<li>The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root<\/li>\n<li>Drag-and-drop sortable galleries<\/li>\n<li>Customizable default avatars<\/li>\n<li>Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins<\/li>\n<li>Check box range selection with shift-click<\/li>\n<li>TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes<\/li>\n<li>jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements<\/li>\n<li>jQuery UI 1.5<\/li>\n<li>Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally the feature of activating\/deactivating plugins in bulk is here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan has announced the availability of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. The final release of WordPress 2.6 should happen between 7th July 2008 to 14th July 2008 according to WordPress Trac&#8217;s Roadmap. WordPress 2.6 is not a big release compared to WordPress 2.5, but hopefully it will not break any plugins as I just updated my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/24\/wordpress-26-beta-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress 2.6 Beta 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[80,29],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-80","tag-beta"],"views":10584,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}