Upgrade WordPress to 2.9 And Enjoy New Features
WordPress Version 2.9, named for Carmen McRae, was released to the public. I just upgrade it, because new features that I like so much. It appears that all of plugins are working fine. The main new features are the addition of the ‘Post Thumbnail’ box in the writing screen, the image editor in the Media Library, the new ‘Trash’ status for posts, pages and comments that you can recovery like windows recycle bin. The image editor feature lets you do some simple manipulation such as rotating, scaling, and cropping an image in the post area.
Some new features by WordPress 2.9.
- Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
- ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
- Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
- Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
- Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
- Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
- Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
- Remove Sphere from search list
- Show correct max upload filesize error message
- Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
- Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ‘spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
- Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
- Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
- Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
- Display comments in descending date order, consistently
- Press This bookmarklet fixes
- Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
- Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
- Retire BunnyTags importer, Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
- Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
- Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag CloudsDownload WordPress 2.9
Sources: dougal.gunters.org, wordpress.org
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Tags: Carmen McRae, Wordpress 2.9
January 7th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
HiBlogaholic, Love the name btw, but also enjoyed this post. As a user of WordPress but a user who will admit that I’m not a techi and hate it every time when we turn around we have to update a new version of WordPress. I understand that each time we do update it is for the better but I still dislike it, but I’m also not into change…could be the age thing. Your post however was so informative that I actually learned a lot from this post…for that I thank you. Then I noticed today when I went to my admin that now we have to update to 2.9.1 sooo here we go again. I’ve read some of your other post and have enjoyed them as well, I will definitely be back for more. Thanks jj