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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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!
Thinking to shift from blogger to wordpress
as wordpress is the best of all
thanks …
@strats yep there were many bugs they fixed out 197
@mayur wordpress is really the best
Hey guyz, dare not say anything to Tumblr :-p , its the best, it rocks
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I think I will wait for a while till updating… just to be on the safe side.
@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 currently
oh god 194 bugs thats huge, and so far new features are very good gona update tonight
me too will do in this week
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.
are you sure this was just due to 2.6 ?
or may be some of ur server error ??
reply nahi milenga
WordPress Rocks…
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