Automattic Releases WordPress 2.6
It’s not just for blogging anymore! With static frontpage options and easy-to-setup permalinks, WordPress is a great choice for CMS sites.
Watch the video, see the changes below, and then upgrade!
Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs. Plus you get:
- Word count (no need to guess how many words are in a post anymore)
- Image captions
- Bulk management of plugins
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing… 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-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean†SVN checkouts
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-clickâ€
- 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
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We recently did the upgrade to 2.6 at our time tracking blog and had only a bit of trouble with our custom template. The rather annoying bit was/is the caption feature around the images. If I want to add a caption, I can always do it manually within the WP write area. By automatically adding this feature, all of our align tags were thrown off and we had to go back and add a fine lines of code to the main stylesheet. Not a big deal, but I’d expect more from WP.