WordPress 2.8 beta Preview
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.
Sam May 6th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
WordPress just keeps getting better and easier for non-technical users, thanks for the great video!
portable gas grill September 23rd, 2010 at 2:01 am
Thanks for the suggestions and references information’s.