WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 Released!

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One of the most powerful and state of art blogging CMS is WordPress. It’s all set to release a new version namely wordpress 2.6 on July 7 or 14, 2008. However, for the testers the beta 1 is out today and can be downloaded from the official site. I just downloaded the release and will to an exhaustive post after setting it up on this site later today.

The new release promises of vast improvements like [1. Courtesy WordPress ]:

*Â Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions.
* Add paging of Themes in Design panel
* Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages
* Press This bookmarklet
* Add sorting to gallery
* Export/import post excerpts
* Theme Previewer
* Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
* Show when a term is both a tag and a category
* Wider Profile fields
* TinyMCE 3.1

I am pretty excited about the release and will set it up on my blog today.

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This entry was posted by Vivek on June 24, 2008 at 8:22 pm, and is filed under Technology. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.