After a long silence, I am back on the blogging scene, with a new hope and enthuisiam to blog regularly. This post comes all of a sudden (not as i had planned), as my examination is going on. Anyways, back to subject.
WordPress 2.8, named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Overall 790 bugs have been fixed, according to the offical blog:
We also fixed over 790 bugs.
What’s New
Enhanced performance
WordPress 2.8 is way faster to use. It provides faster loading of admin pages through script compression and concatenation. It also features jQuery 1.3.2 and TinyMCE 3.2.3. In addition there has been some improvements to database API also. The official wordpress blog says:
We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.
Theme Updater – Browse new themes
With the success of core and plugin updaters, the same has been extended to themes also. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.
Enhanced Code Editor
The in-built code editor with WordPress has been enhanced to CodePress, which gives syntax highlight to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
New Widget API
Another feature of WordPress 2.8 is the revamp of the widgets section. Refreshingly, all your sidebars are visible at once (just like old times) and you can drag and drop the required widgets into them. You can have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.
Tag Management
A new sub-section has been added to the Posts section called “Post Tags” that contains all the tags that have been used so far in your blog. Just like categories, you can change the Tag name, Tag slug and also add description for your tags.
Other Features
- Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four column.
- Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Option.
- Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment.
- Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module.
- Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows.
Related Links
WordPress 2.8 can be downloaded at -http://wordpress.org/download/
Complete feature list & release notes at – http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8
One Response to WordPress 2.8 (Baker) – What’s New
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wasim Says:June 12th, 2009
great job
