After the release of WordPress 2.8.6, WordPress engineers started working on a newer version of WordPress and they had made up their mind that they would launch a newer version of WordPress within this year (2009)…. And they kept their words by launching it yesterday!! Congrats to the WordPress team :).
Let me discuss some import and new features in WordPress 2.9:
- Trash em’, instead of Delete: Now there is an option to trash your recent drafts and comments. If you trash a draft\comment by mistake you can now undo the”trash” feature. This also gets rid of the annoying JS popup – “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor: Allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and resize\scale your images. This is one of the much hyped features in this release of WordPress 2.9.
- Nice buttons: In the dashboard the WordPress buttons have been smoothened and looks nice :) as of now, in the WordPress 2.9 release there aren’t any high end UI changes to the admin dashboard. This release mainly concentrates on some under the hood changes to the WordPress.
- Under the hood changes:
– Previously if we wanted to add a ‘rel=canonical’ to the WordPress blog, we had to use a plugin like All In One SEO, but now it’s been hard coded into the WordPress template for better SEO..
– Automatic database optimization support is also one of the new main features. Remember that error “An error occurred, please try again” in WordPress? Yeah, that one. I hope we won’t be getting any of those since WordPress can automatically fix errors itself now.
Here is a video guide from WordPress team on the new WordPress 2.9 Carmen:
The upgrades in 2.9 have been an exotic cycle, let’s wait and see what’s new in WordPress 3.0, which is coming soon (this spring). We can expect a lot more since the merge of MU with the WordPress core, and we hear that there is going to be a new default theme. Cheers to the WordPress team :)…
