The new WordPress 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner has been released with several enhanced features and addons.
1. Easily revise your photos or restore your previous editions for a certain post. This benefits multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.
2. Easily blog about a newly found stuff (a video, an audio file, an image, an interesting article, etc.) from the web with its enhanced Press This! button. Easily grab the text, images, quote or embed a video with this feature.
3. Catch more attention by adding captions for your images.
4. Preview your chosen theme first before using it to your blog.
5. Speed up your blogging by using Gears.
Other enhancements and new features on the new WordPress version:
- 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.
Download the new WordPress 2.6 now.
Tags: Blogging, Blogging Software, New WordPress Features, Plugin Incompatibility, WordPress 2.6, WordPress Tyner
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