posted on July 15, 2008 in
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WordPress 2. 6 (Tyner) is out with some new improvements.
1. Post Revisions :: You get to diff your post changes now.
2. A new Press This! button. :: Directly post from any site you are on. Plus support to automatically detect media files from sites like YouTube and Flickr.
2. Google Gears :: My fav, you get a local cache for your WordPress. Speedier access and the possibility of new and better feature moving forward.

WordPress 2.6 with Google Gears
3. Theme Previews :: Now you get to preview your theme without enabling it.
Those were the major additions, now for the smaller stuff.
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now 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-click.�
- 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.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Download WordPress 2.6 :: Install Guide :: Upgrade Guide :: Forums
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Cool. Your blog is upgraded. I still haven’t upgrade mine,