WordPress 2.6 has been released, and the new feature list seems impressive.
Here is a quick list of the features that have been added to the new version of WordPress:
- Versioning control – you can now track and compare changes when editing an existing post
- Press This! – you can add a bookmark to your browser’s toolbar, which will automatically start a post with the content of whatever page you’re viewing when you press the bookmark. For instance, if you visit YouTube, you can use the Press This! button to automatically post the video you’re viewing on your blog
- Gears – I’m honestly not sure what this does, but it appears to be some sort of plugin for your browser, completely independent of WordPress, that allows you to cache common CSS and JS files while you’re browsing the Web
- Theme previews – you can now test drive a theme while you are developing it, rather than having to make it active to see what it really looks like
- Word count
- Image captions
- …much more
Here’s a short video detailing some of the updates. A higher res version is available in the official WordPress blog:
If you are using WordPress (like we are here at HTMLCenter and I am on one of my personal sites), it seems like it’s really worth it to run out and pick up the new version. If you’re not a WordPress user, now might be a good time to become one.
Let us know what you think of it once you get it configured.