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Wordpress 2.6 Released
Jul 15 2008

Wordpress 2.6 Released


Wordpress LogoWordpress team today announced that version 2.6 of WordPress.org now available for download.Wordpress 2.6 codenamed “Tyner” contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web.

 

Here’s a list of enhanced features of Wordpress 2.6 :-

  • 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-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.
  • Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

 

You can get Wordpress 2.6 from http://wordpress.org/download/

 

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13 Comments on this post

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  1. stratosg said:

    i am thinking about updating… sometimes release way ahead of schedule means problems and bugs… hope this goes well for matt and all the wordpress team!

    July 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
  2. Mayur said:

    Thinking to shift from blogger to wordpress
    as wordpress is the best of all :D thanks …

    July 15th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
  3. Siddharth said:

    @strats yep there were many bugs they fixed out 197 :P
    @mayur wordpress is really the best ;)

    July 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
  4. Pratyush said:

    Hey guyz, dare not say anything to Tumblr :-p , its the best, it rocks :D .

    July 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
  5. Rajaie AlKorani said:

    I think I will wait for a while till updating… just to be on the safe side.

    July 16th, 2008 at 5:41 am
  6. Siddharth said:

    @pratyush I always thought tumblr to be good :P
    @rajaie I am waiting too may be for 2 - 3 more days
    there are no reviews of 2.6 currently

    July 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am
  7. moin said:

    oh god 194 bugs thats huge, and so far new features are very good gona update tonight :D

    July 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
  8. Siddharth said:

    me too will do in this week ;)

    July 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
  9. G said:

    Yeah, I know about all the “cool stuff” in 2.6, and its really alluring. The problem is when I upgraded, it broke everything. My site was down for about 2 days…which SUCKS.

    That’s why I reverted to 2.5.

    July 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
  10. Siddharth said:

    are you sure this was just due to 2.6 ?
    or may be some of ur server error ??

    July 18th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
  11. Rockstar Sid said:

    reply nahi milenga :D :D

    July 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
  12. Anurag said:

    Wordpress Rocks…

    http://www.pcdrome.com

    July 22nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
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    November 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

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