As
expected, the folks at Automattic
unleashed Wordpress 2.8 on the public this week. If your blog his hosted on Wordpress.com, it should automatically be upgraded. If you have a self-hosted blog running Wordpress 2.7 or a more recent build, you should be able to upgrade from your blog administration pages. Or you can
download Wordpress 2.8 if you want to upgrade manually or install the blogging platform from scratch.
There are a ton of changes, bug fixes, and new features, but here are a few of the highlights:
- It's much easier to customize widgets
- The admin pages are significantly more responsive and faster to navigate
- New syntax editor which adds color (literally) to plugin and theme editors
- New theme browser that makes it easy to find and install themes from the admin pages
- Added a Widget API
To see some more of the changes, check out the video embedded after the page break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Piers said 11:07AM on 6-11-2009
I tried installing it on two of my blogs and found there was quite a big bug where if you click "save draft" then it keeps the title but removes the content of the post.
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Jash Sayani said 11:39AM on 6-11-2009
Thanks for reporting it, in that case I will stick to 2.6 now. However, I guess the Dev team would have done a thorough check before release, so check your permissions.
kingkool68 said 12:57PM on 6-11-2009
Upgraded all of my blogs to 2.8 and have had no problems what-so-ever. This update is pretty meh.
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