{"id":258,"date":"2009-06-11T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2009-06-12T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T01:28:28","slug":"wordpress-2-8-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/11\/wordpress-2-8-released\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.8 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/06\/wordpress-28\/\">WordPress 2.8<\/a> has been released!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the quote from Matt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 &#8220;Baker,&#8221; is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major New Improvements<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We\u2019ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.<\/p>\n<p>The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you\u2019ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you\u2019re editing linked right below the editor.<\/p>\n<p>If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We\u2019ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn\u2019t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don\u2019t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.<\/p>\n<p>Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It\u2019s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip\">WordPress 2.8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View: <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_2.8\">WordPress 2.8 Changelog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 2.8 has been released! Here is the quote from Matt: I\u2019m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 &#8220;Baker,&#8221; is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/11\/wordpress-2-8-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress 2.8 Released&#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":[113,28],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-113","tag-release"],"views":13661,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}