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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On the same day 5 years back i.e 27 May , 2003 WordPress team released the first ever version of WordPress i.e 
and has become certainly the most popular blogging software today.There are lakhs of plugins and themes available for it 
this 
Top 5 Unique Plugins for WordPress
Hello friends,
There are now literally thousands of list on top wordpress plugins. But here I present you a unique list of top 5 less known plugins but which are very useful :-
Theme Test Drive :-
Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin is a plugin designed by Vladmir ,which allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.
It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.
You can download Theme Test Drive from here.
Comment Info Tip Plugin:-
This WordPress plugin ,which I got from Blogote , provides you and your commenter’s a bit of information on their posting stats which includes the comments count,latest posts on which he commented and a excerpt of his latest post if available.
If the comment is a pingback or trackback then it will display that it is a pingback or trackback.
Here’s a screenshot :-
You can download it from here.
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