WordPress 2.6 Released (Tyner)
WordPress has announced the release of another stable version (WordPress 2.6 Tyner). It is named after a Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner. This new update comes with some great features that I believe definately makes wordpress a much more stronger CMS system.
Important features that WordPress 2.6 consist is:
Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
Bulk management of plugins.
A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
Plugin update notification bubble.
Customizable default avatars.
You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean†SVN checkouts.
Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.â€
You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
WordPress has prepared a short video that gives an overview of this new release
Download WordPress 2.6 (Tyner) NOW
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Thanks for letting us know the new features of the WP 2.6. I would like to know if there is any problem with the themes, I mean the themes that worked with 2.5.1 will work with 2.6. If you update your blog please let us know.
themes work fine … I don’t know if you guys remember the bug I pointed out in admin panel .. tht is still there.
I too noticed the plugins count problem in wp admin Syed.
I have 21 plugins active, but it shows as 11 active.. Weird!
It took me 2 months to finally be able to switch to 2.5!! lol.. so I hope this update doesn’t mess up the theme or anything but I have to say the features sound amazing. I guess what happened is people got used to the way things used to be with WordPress 2.3 and lower. Anyway, time to upgrade!
yup.. I already upgraded.
Same here! I just upgraded as well. Had to update database and one of my crucial plugins didnt work but aside from that, pretty fast!
Is there a widget to do this?
Nope just go through this guide – http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
Thanks chetan for the reply. I couldn’t get to it as I am a bit sick.
Thank you Chetan.
Upgraded to 2.6 – only had one moment where I held my breath when it did not seem to want to let me login afterwards. Waited a few minutes and tried again and it all worked out.
yeah it did that to me too.
Thats looks fine, will be upgrading it..
But they have not changed the widget thing ? I like the previous version of widget settings.
Although it does have some new cool features, I think I will be waiting for a while before I update, just to make sure there are no bugs… and because I’m lazy.
Haha I think being lazy is the main reason
but its ok to wait..