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Wordpress 2.8 released

by Brad Linder Jun 11th 2009

Wordpress 2.8
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.

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Tags: wordpress, wordpress-2.8

Filed under: Blogging, Web

WordPress 2.8 coming soon, WordPress MU to be phased out

by Brad Linder Jun 5th 2009

WP 2.8 theme installer
Popular blogging platform WordPress will get a minor update next week with the launch of version 2.8. The new version should be available to the public starting June 10th.

WordPress 2.8 will have an updated theme browser which makes it just as easy to install and update WordPress themes as it is to find and install plugins. Users will also have more options for customizing their Dashboard widgets and other admin pages. There have also been updates to the ways comments are handled, and WordPress 2.8 adds support for case-insensitive logins.

The other big news out of WordPress is that the developers are planning to merge WordPress MU (multi-user) with the main version of the blogging platform. Right now there are very few differences between WordPress and WordPress MU, and it looks like the MU code will simply be added to WordPress. But that won't happen before WordPress 2.8 is released next week, so expect there to be two different versions for now.

[via the Blog Herald]

Tags: wordpress, wordpress-2.8, wordpress-mu

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