WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” is out!

December 21, 2009 by Emily  

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Late on Friday they finally released WordPress 2.9. Have you upgraded yet? Most people should be able to do it with the click on a button at this point, but if not you can download it here.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, here are some of the new features you’ll have when you do:

• Built-in image editor that lets you crop, edit, rotate and scale your images.
• Global “trashcan”, which means that posts or comments you delete won’t immediately go away into the ether. So you can restore anything you deleted by accident.
• Easier video embedding.
• Easily assign thumbnails for all your posts, which are great for magazine style blogs and food blogs. (You can see an example of how I used the new Post Thumbnail feature on Cooking with Michele. The thumbnails are being utilized for the “related posts” under every post, as well as on the archives, categories and search pages.) Here’s a great tutorial if you want to know how to set up Post Thumbnails on your site.
• Automatic database optimization, which is an important thing to do to keep your WP install running well, but most people who aren’t designers/developers wouldn’t have any clue how to do themselves. Now all you have to do is add this your wp-config file:
  define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);

That’s just some of the big stuff, there are tons of small improvements and bug fixes. You can read a longer list over on the Dev Blog. Or you can watch this video for the highlights:

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   karensugarpants Says:

   @MightyOCD read this 1st if you haven’t upgraded: http://swankwebstyle.com/blog/2009/12/21/wordpress-2-9-carmen-is-out/

   This comment was originally posted on Twitter

   December 22, 2009 at 12:42 am | Reply
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   BM Says:

   I agree, WP 2.9 is a solid update, but am still looking for more in WordPress 3.0. Here’s my thoughts on the newest version of WordPress.

   http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/Web_Development/Blogs/WordPress/WordPress-2-9-What-to-Expect-When-Upgrading-to-WordPress-2-9.html?

   December 23, 2009 at 6:41 pm | Reply
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