Wordpress 2.6 Released
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Wordpress 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-configfile andwp-contentdirectories 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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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 -
Mayur said:
Thinking to shift from blogger to wordpress
as wordpress is the best of all
thanks …July 15th, 2008 at 6:11 pm -
Siddharth said:
@strats yep there were many bugs they fixed out 197
@mayur wordpress is really the best
July 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm -
Pratyush said:
Hey guyz, dare not say anything to Tumblr :-p , its the best, it rocks
.July 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm -
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 -
Siddharth said:
@pratyush I always thought tumblr to be good
@rajaie I am waiting too may be for 2 - 3 more days
there are no reviews of 2.6 currentlyJuly 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am -
moin said:
oh god 194 bugs thats huge, and so far new features are very good gona update tonight
July 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pm -
Siddharth said:
me too will do in this week
July 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pm -
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 -
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 -
Rockstar Sid said:
reply nahi milenga
:DJuly 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm -
Anurag said:
Wordpress Rocks…
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm -
Eneliemorne said:
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have a look at them:
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Thank you for your site
xxoxoNovember 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm