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Wordpress team is going to release a new version to the public on May 2009. Let’s download beta version and look a bit closer at Wordpress 2.8.

Features List

• The main features are new Theme Installer routines, Theme Search routines and new Widgets API.
• Another very nice feature (from our standpoint) is CodePress syntax highlighting in Theme and Plugin editors.
• Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New
• Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
• Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
• Wordpress 2.8 have new TinyMCE 3.2.3 and pclzip has been updated to 2.8
• JS script loader Improvements: Wordpress 2.8 now uses jQuery 1.3.2.
• Also Wordpress developers want to add Menu editor!!! But for now it’s not included in the beta package.

Video Review

The following video (thanks to eduChalk.org) shows a couple of nice improvements coming out in WordPress 2.8. We are sure that the new theme uploader is going to please a lot of WordPress users.

You can read full information at the official wordpress site: Version 2.8.

Tags: Improvements, Theme Search, Video Review, Widgets, wordpress

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