WordPress 2.6 Released Early
This is something you don’t see every day, an early release of a blogging platform. WordPress 2.6 is out, almost a month ahead of schedule, which is just smashing, isn’t it? Among the news you’ll find Google Gears support, image captioning, a revamped Press This! bookmarklet, wiki-like revisioning of posts, and so on. This video gives a brief overview:
Grab WordPress 2.6 from the download page. As always, we encourage you to update, if nothing else but to keep your blog safe.
Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.
I wrote a tutorial where you can use a plugin to automatically upgrade to WordPress 2.6 in 5 minutes without any problems.
Have fun and good luck with the upgrade!
Who did the video? It’s quite good :)
The new updates are terrific, but what I’m hoping is that this version includes the ability (which WordPress once had) to publish a post automatically on a certain day and time.
WordPress 2.5 and 2.5.1 does not include that option, and it’s sorely missed. I travel a lot and find it bothersome to open my laptop just to publish posts that no longer publish automatically.
@ Solo:
Actually, that feature was never removed. It is now slightly hidden under Publish Status > Publish Immediately > Edit. The hope is that it will be more prominent in upcoming versions.
It’s awesome updates. The video is great and I like it. Thanks to share with us.
@Jeremy Wright
The video is provided by the WordPress folks. See the WP2.6 dev blog post linked above.
Yep, the new updates are terrific. Thanks for the video.