{"id":246,"date":"2008-07-15T03:38:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/?p=246"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:58:26","slug":"wordpress-26-tyner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2008\/07\/wordpress-26-tyner\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available<\/a>, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner<\/a>, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:<\/p>\n

If you’d like to embed the tour video in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a smaller version, 400 pixels wide:<\/p>\n
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Here’s a more textual overview of what’s hawt in 2.6:<\/p>\n
Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits<\/h3>\n
With the power of modern computers, it’s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks. WordPress has always respected the importance of your writing with auto-save, and now we’re taking that to another level by allowing you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like Wikipedia<\/a> or a version control system<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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This is handy on any blog in case you make a mistake and want to go back to an older version of a post, and it’s super handy for multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.<\/p>\n
Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web<\/h3>\n
A few months ago on my blog we started a conversation about the posting bookmarklet<\/a> in WordPress and which systems we should look to for inspiration, like Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious. From these suggestions and the Quick Post plugin by Josh Kenzer, we developed a Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog:<\/p>\n
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For example, if you click “Press This” from a Youtube<\/a> page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a Flickr<\/a> page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post. On my blog I’ve been experimenting with using different categories and the in_category()<\/code> function — such as video, quote, aside, et cetera — to create a more tumblelog-like format.<\/p>\n
Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging<\/h3>\n
Gears<\/a> is an open source browser extension project started by Google that developers like us can use to give you features we wouldn’t normally be able to. There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release we’ve stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.<\/p>\n
Theme Previews: See it before your audience does<\/h3>\n
Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when you are developing a theme and need to test it but don’t want everybody to see your ongoing mistakes<\/del> development.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:<\/p>\n