Wordpress 2.6 rocks

Posted on July 15, 2008
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Ok I’ve installed Wordpress 2.6 that was just released today. For only a minor version number increment there are some pretty slick new features bundled in.

Google Gears support is included and while it’s not there to support offline blogging (yet?) it does speed up the admin by caching a lot of javascript locally – nice!

A few other highlights that stand out for me in particular:

Images can now be captioned!!
Adding media and images is now fully integrated into the richtext editor. Previously it seemed like it was 75 – 80% of the way there, now it feels so much more logical. The image and media tools in the WP 2.0+ releases are a welcome addition after coming from WP 1.x previously – no more having to dig around for a good gallery plugin…
There is tracking and recording of any changes – versioning is always one of those features that are great and very useful when you desperately need them, but very hard to implement well at the backend. Kudos to the WP team.
Notification of updates to plugins (incidentally I got automatic updating of plugins working now too – a change to the plugin directory permissions is required) makes updating of plugins too easy – nice!
Previewing of themes is a pretty handy little addition too.

Big ups to the WP team – this platform has really matured into a wonderful web publishing platform!

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