{"id":179,"date":"2008-07-15T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-07-15T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:49:30","slug":"wordpress-26-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/15\/wordpress-26-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.6 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2008\/07\/wordpress-26-tyner\/\">WordPress 2.6<\/a> has been released.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some new features of WordPress 2.6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits<\/li>\n<li>Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web<\/li>\n<li>Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging<\/li>\n<li>Theme Previews: See it before your audience does<\/li>\n<li>Word count<\/li>\n<li>Image captions under your image<\/li>\n<li>Bulk management of plugins<\/li>\n<li>A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It\u2019s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG<\/li>\n<li>Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries<\/li>\n<li>Plugin update notification bubble<\/li>\n<li>Customizable default avatars<\/li>\n<li>You can now upload media when in full-screen mode<\/li>\n<li>Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default<\/li>\n<li>Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security<\/li>\n<li>You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues<\/li>\n<li>Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for \u201cclean\u201d SVN checkouts<\/li>\n<li>Select a range of checkboxes with &#8220;shift-click.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one<\/li>\n<li>A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions<\/li>\n<li>Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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. <strong>The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintain so everyone is encouraged to upgrade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&raquo;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip\">Download WordPress 2.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2008\/07\/wordpress-26-tyner\/trackback\/<\/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":[80,28,153],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-80","tag-release","tag-wordpress"],"views":12855,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}