WordPress 2.6 is out!

July 16, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Downloads

WordPress 2.6 is now available for download. Matt has said that this is a really solid release (there have been many betas and one release candidate that have been tested out already), so there’s no reason to wait to upgrade. While 2.6 brings some nice new features, it’s mainly improvements and refinements upon the major release that was 2.5. In this respect, there shouldn’t be any theme incompatibilities and few to zero plugin incompatibilities.

Some of the new features of WP 2.6 include:

Post revisions, which gives you the ability to go back and see older versions of your posts in case you make a mistake or accidentally delete something you didn’t mean to.
Press this! which is an improvement to the old bookmarklet tool, which should make it easier to have a more tumblr like blog being able to add pictures, videos, links and anything else interesting you find on the net to your blog with the click of a button.
Theme previews let you view a new theme (with all your current content) before you activate and make it live.
Image uploader improvements, including easier inserting, floating, and resizing as well as drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
Stronger, better, faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI as well as support for Gears, which will speed up the load time of some of your admin area pages.
Security improvements including cookies and support for SSL.

You can read about these and more features in detail on the dev blog. Or you can view this handy little video for more info on this new release:

Download WordPress 2.6 today!

Comments

Posted by Emily @ 1:02 pm

It’s that time again. WordPress 2.6 is expected to be released in a week or two. This isn’t as big a release as 2.5, but there are definitely some handy new features and improvements. 2.6 Beta 2 was released yesterday if you can’t wait to try it out. If you just want to see what’s coming in 2.6 then check out Technosailer’s 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6 as well as Weblog Tools Collection’s What You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6.

July 2, 2008 | Comments

Firefox 3 Released!

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Downloads

Firefox 3 has finally been released today. If you have an older version upgrade now. If you still aren’t using Firefox as your web browser, why the heck not?

SpreadFirefox.com is trying to make the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period, so why not be part of that? Email your friends and family and tell them to download Firefox as well!

Still not convinced about Firefox? Tons of people have proclaimed the advantages of Firefox over browsers like Internet Explorer. Check out these links to find out what’s new about Firefox 3 and why you should switch if you haven’t already: