WordPress 2.6 Released

by Earl on July 16, 2008

WordPress 2.6 was released on Monday, July 14th, 2008 with a number of new features. You can view a brief video tour of 2.6 at the link above.

After insuring all the plugins used by Meandering Passage were at their latest version, I updated WordPress on this blog late yesterday evening.

No problems were encountered and everything seems to be working. That’s the kind of upgrade I like.

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1 Richard Querin July 16, 2008 at 8:44 am: Hey Earl,

I watched that video last night too. While I probably won’t find the revision feature too useful (it is neat though), I think the Gears option might be very useful to me. I find editing my blog can be a little sluggish sometimes. But of course I’m not sure if it’s my hosting or what. Editing the screencasters blog (which is Wordpress too, but on a different host) is much snappier than my own personal one. Maybe gears can help level the field in that respect.

I’ll be upgrading likely later this week.

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2 Earl Moore July 16, 2008 at 9:42 am: Hi Richard,
I don’t know that I’ll actually use the revision or Gears features either. I do all my post editing off-line using a desktop editor and I don’t believe the revision feature works for this.

I do like some of the “small” improvements, such as theme preview and shift select for comments or posts. Not used all the time but nice to have.

For a long period prior to WP 2.5 it seemed that all the WP updates were just bug fixes but since 2.5 they seem to be adding in new features. It’s good to see that.

Take care my friend!

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3 Paul July 18, 2008 at 5:25 pm: Dude! No way am I touching a new Wordpress version! I’ve learned from my last two efforts!

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