Great news for bloggers using one of the best CMSs: ‘WP’, The final version of WordPress 2.8 “Baker” (named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker) is now available for download! Over 790 bugs have been fixed from the previous release. WP 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. It is now way faster to use. The developers have changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.
What’s interesting is that you can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from your WordPress dashboard. With the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor, you can now enjoy making edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard with ease. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
The widgets interface has also been redesigned to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well. Additionally, you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.
Here’s a quick video overview of the new features in the new release by the WordPress team:
You can also read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex here.
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