An overview on WordPress 2.8
The Chet Baker Monument in Amsterdam
Yesterday (june 10th 2009) the new WordPress 2.8 version (called “Baker” in honor of the trumpeter Chet Baker) has been released.
There are many interesting news, summarized as follow by the official WordPress.org site:
* New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
* Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
* Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
* Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
* Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
* Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
* Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
* Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation
The following good preview can be found has been released by the great WordPress.tv site:
WPEngineer explains how to build a WordPress 2.8 widget, using object-oriented php; Joseph Scott how to manage the new features of the XML-RPC and AtomPub with Baker; Weblog Tools Collection collected a list of articles dealing with WordPress 2.8; Justin Tadlock explains the management and customization of taxonomies in the new version; Will Norris wrote an article about new features in authentication.
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