Its finally time to look forward to the next version of Wordpress i.e. Wordpress 2.6 as it will introduce some very interesting features and usability improvements.
Wordpress Expert has a good list of features in Wordpress 2.6 which I have summarized below.
- Bookmarklet: Remember the Wordpress Bookmarklet? It is coming back to Wordpress in version 2.6 with a new and improved functionality.
- Post Word Count: This feature is available for Wordpress.com users and has good chances of making into Wordpress 2.6 too.
- Shift-Click Checkbox Selection: In Wordpress 2.6 you will be able to select a range of posts, comments etc using the Shift-Click hack.
- Post Revisions: Wiki-style revisions management for blog posts.
- Google Gears Support: Probably the most interesting feature yet is the Google Gears Support for Wordpress 2.6. This will enable users to write posts even in offline mode.
- Identicons: Choose gravatars for those who don’t have one.
Wordpress 2.6 alpha Demo Site is up and can be accessed at the URL below:
http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin/
To access the demo blog with administrator privileges use the username: admin and password: demo
As you will notice the UI has not been changed much but overall a lot of new features have been implemented.
Saad Hamid is a tech enthusiast from Pakistan who started this blog in 2007.
Yupe read about it in social sites! and also logged in but find no big difference.
Google Gears Support is what makes me drool about Wordpress 2.6
I trully think the new WordPress makes blogging a lot easier. However, it seems to load a bit longer than the previous versions.
Ahhhh cool,
Does this mean wordpress will fabricate a security scare to make us update to this one
No Point in releasing new version again & again unless there is really a need for it for security reasons. Wordpress team should directly launch a version 3 with a huge make over
And of course more bugs will be found… That is why I hate new major version. So many bugs.