WordPress 2.6 Final Released

Today when I opened my site’s dashboard I saw a notification about updating to WordPress 2.6 and I was surprised as it was released a whole month ahead of its release date, thumbs up to the developers! there have been some new features added to this version along with 194 bug fixes.

I upgraded to the latest version and immediately saw some changes like  the dashboard now shows your comments count along with spam comments and unapproved comments, the theme section is now paginated and whenever you click a theme an Ajax based preview page opens up and you can then apply the theme from there, there is a “press this” bookmarklet so that you can start posting quickly, now every time you or someone edit your posts wordpress remembers the changes so that you can restore them later if there is a problem and the plugins page has been redesigned to add  inactive plugins and recently active plugins section, WordPress expert has a detailed post about the changes in this release check it out here

here are some screenshots of the visible changes in this release:

Comments count on dashboard

the press this bookmark link under in the new post section

paginated themes section

Ajax based theme preview

check box next to every plugin so you can select multiple plugins and activate/deactivate them

inactive plugins section in the plugins area

post revision history

when you click any revision it will show you page with all the revision at the bottom so that you can compare two revisions:

comparing two posts, highlights the changes

here is the video of complete changes made by wordpress developers:

alternatively you can checkout all the new features in this release on the official wordpress blog

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