WordPress 2.9: The Bloggers Gift for the Holidays
By lorelle, posted December 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm | No Comments »
Just out in time for the Bitwire Media Holiday Marathon, and a gift to bloggers around the world, WordPress 2.9 has been released. There is a lot to be excited about. Some highlights include the new post thumbnail, trash can, the long awaited image editing, oEmbed, custom post types, improvements to comment meta Plugin integration and a metadata API for Plugin authors. Exciting for those of us who’ve been around WordPress for a long time, and have abused our databases, is the new Database Repair Script to help clean up your database.
The full list of goodies and improvements for the WordPress version named for jazz legend, Carmen McRae, is in the WordPress Codex for WordPress 2.9.
Here are articles discussing all these details with more detail:
- 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 – Technosailor.com
- Upgrading to WordPress 2.9 and WPAU Update – Techie-Buzz
- WordPress 2.9 — A Video Demonstration from Educhalk
- WordPress 2.9 Enhancements Every Developer Must Know – W3Avenue
- Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9′s post image feature – Justin Tadlock
- Most Notable Features in WordPress 2.9 – WP Beginner
- Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9 – Yoast – Tweaking Websites
- WordPress 2.9 Features – Dougal Campbell
- New Feature for WordPress 2.9 – WordPress Image Editor – WP Engineer
- Sidebar (widget area) descriptions in WordPress 2.9 – Justin Tadlock
- New feature in WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image() – - WP Engineer
- Easy Embeds For WordPress 2.9 – Viper007Bond.com
- WordPress 2.9: Display post image with backward compatibility – WP Recipes
So many of the developers who contribute to making WordPress better for all of us are usually invisible. In the WordPress 2.9 announcement, Matt honors the 140 contributors. Stop in and click their links and say thank you personally. These are the folks who give so much to keep us blogging for free.
