Top 5 New Features of WordPress V2.6

This is a special featured post dedicating to WordPress.org. WordPress.org is the blogging platform of Travel Feeder. Without it Travel Feeder would not look as what it is now. WordPress started in 2003 and it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. On July 15, 2008, WordPress has announced the latest version of 2.6! WordPress version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS. Here are the Top 5 New Features of WP 2.6 among many more others:-

1. Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits

   WordPress has always respected the importance of our writing with auto-save, and now they’re taking that to another level by allowing us to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface.

2. Press This!: Post from wherever we are on the web

   From the suggestions and the Quick Post plugin by Josh Kenzer, wp developed a Press This bookmark we can add to our toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to our WordPress blog.

3. Shift Gears: Turbo-speed our blogging

   Gears is an open source browser extension project started by Google. There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release wp have stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on our computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.

4. Theme Previews: See it before your audience does

   Now when we select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all our content, instead of immediately making it active on our site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when we are developing a theme and need to test it but don’t want everybody to see our ongoing mistakes development.

5. Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.

I have upgraded to this version since yesterday and hoped that Travel Feeder would give our readers the best presentation that we could. Happy reading!  – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.