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WordPress 2.8 Available – Highlights

WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is available for download. Version 2.8 contains improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed and has over 790 bug fixes.

Highlights:

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation.

Check out the official WordPress blog for more information on this latest version.

Posted on June 11th 2009 in Versions | No Comments »

20 Most Important Features of WordPress 2.7

WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs. This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is. WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. This will be a huge upgrade for all blog owners.

The following lists 20 of the biggest changes, but all together there have been over 400 changes to the program with version 2.7. (2.7.1 just came out recently).

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Posted on February 9th 2009 in Versions | 2 Comments »