WordPress 2.9 Just Around the Corner…What’s New?

November 10, 2009 | By: Adrian

Anyday now (hopefully) wordpress 2.9 will be released. Actually it will probably be around December. So we are involved in beta testing so I can tell you there are some neat features being introduced. For those of you that use WordPress for your blog or website, then I you want to hear about what’s new with WordPress 2.9. Check out the full list of features here. Here are somethings we found interesting:

• Trash – That’s right, forget about accidentally deleting a page or post and it being gone forever. This feature includes restore and permanent delete.
• Image editing (sweet feature).
• Some people may have messed stuff up so the “Change Permalinks” button is hidden when editing the page set as “Front page”
• Fix for the the race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title. This annoyed me many times.
• Minify admin CSS – Fantastic for developers as this will speed up load times of pages.
• If you’ve had comments not appear in the right order, its been fixed in this version.
• There are improvements to execution of jqeury scripts. It will be interesting to see how this works.
• Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML…just kidding, not important. Who uses these themes seriously?