WordPress 2.8 coming this April 09
WordPress going to have quite major release this April, with the new version 2.8. After version 2.7, only bug-fixed release on version 2.7.1 rolled out. Sounds like WordPress development process has become even more efficient, with single release to cater all the bug fixes.
Anyhow, the upgrading process no longer a nightmare, with the auto-upgrade feature introduced on version 2.7.
So what’s new in WordPress 2.8? The Codex 2.8 page list down quite numbers of new features. Some that visible to normal users.
- Improved Widget user interface
- Improved performance for script loading
- New Theme Installer routines(view the screen shot)
- Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
- Press This improvements
- Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
- Improved database performance
- Make authentication more pluggable (read more here)
- Allow plugins to provide a canonical redirect_url even if WordPress does not provide its own(no longer needs canonical plugin?)
- Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
- Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
- Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam (cool, really useful)
- Add Sticky to list of post states
- Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
- Allow a plugin to control how many posts are displayed on edit pages
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have you try the one click update. i always get a timeout message.
will wait. right now, i’m fine with 2.7.1
I am glad to hear that WordPress 2.8 is coming out so soon! We just recently had wordpress 2.7, and it is a tremendous improvement over 2.6, I am so glad that wordpress is continually improving the product, i wish more companies were like the wordpress.
I think it’s time for WordPress to start optimizing existing functions and performance rather than introducing new features. In terms of functionality 2.7 seems to be as close to perfection as you can get.
So I suggest 2.8 to be a faster & more optimized 2.7.
John good point, I think one area they need to work on is the caching, I always see plugins for it, so I wonder why the plugins? Why not the default wordpress? So yeah… I’d say for sure improve the power under the hood.