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WordPress 2.9 to get a built-in image editor

by Brad Linder Sep 14th 2009

This summer the folks at Automattic asked users what features they'd most like to see in the next version of the popular WordPress blogging client. one of the most popular suggestions was image editing, and now it looks lke the developers are beginning to add image editing capabilities to WordPress.

The image editor will be baked into WordPress 2.9 and won't require a plugin. The editing functions are pretty basic. You'll be able to crop, resize, and rotate images. Don't expect support for advanced effects, layers, or other features, at least not right away. But the ability to upload your images before editing them should make blogging a bit faster and easier for many users.

[via Life Rocks 2.0]

Tags: image-editing, wordpress, wordpress-2.9

Filed under: Blogging

Vote for the features you'd like to see in Wordpress 2.9

by Brad Linder Jul 7th 2009

Wordpress 2.8 may have just hit the streets a month ago, but the folks behind the popular blogging software are already looking ahead to Wordpress 2.9. As usual, the update will likely bring a number of bug and security fixes. But there's are also plans to cram in a few new major features, and the Wordpress team wants to know what items you think should be at the top of the priority list.

It looks like the focus will be on improving the way blogging software lets you handle and edit media files. It's likely that many of the possible features listed in the Wordpress survey could show up in future versions of the software, but the goal of the survey is to help decide which to focus on in time for the next major release.

You can get a sense of what kind of features the developers are considering from the screenshot above, but you can also find more detailed explanations by reading the official Wordpress blog post.

Tags: automattic, wordpress, wordpress-2.9

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