Wordpress 2.8 Releases in Beta

Steven Finch — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:01:49 +0000

WordPress Testers and early adopters can now download Wordpress 2.8 and test the new features that promise to make WordPress better and more powerful than before.

There are lots of new features in WordPress 2.8 that are really interesting. Here are a few user features you can look out for

New Theme Installer routines
Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
Don’t notify post author of own comments
Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
Add column “Rating” in Administration > Links > Edit
Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
Per Page option for plugins
Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
Support more than one gallery on the same page
Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
Fix most popular link category list
Add description field for tags
“Choose a city in the same timezone as you” for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

Download Wordpress 2.8 Beta 1 now and try it out. Since its a beta release, don’t try it on your primary blog.

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Wordpress 2.8 Releases in Beta