WordPress 2.6 Released
ByWordPress Version 2.6 has just been released. So what’s new? There are several changes, but here are the highlights:
1. When you make post revisions, there is now Wiki-like tracking of edits so that you can view who made what changes when to any post or page.
2. A Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar. This provides a popup to do posts to your WordPress blog. It allows you to easily do things like embed YouTube videos or Flickr photos.
3. Introduced Gears which is an open source browser extension. This version uses “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files. What does this mean? If you install it on your browser, WP 2.6 blogs will load more quickly.
4. A theme viewer pop up that you can use to check out how a theme looks live with your content instead of immediately making it active on your site.
5. Word count.
6. Image captions.
7. Bulk management of plug ins.
8. Image control is improved and integrated into the WYSIWYG editor.
9. Reorder galleries with a drag-and-drop interface.
10. Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure by default.
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