What’s coming with Wordpress 2.7?

After my long hiatus from blogging, one of the most exciting items I was looking forward to seeing was the upgrade of Wordpress from the lower versions of 2.0, up to the substantially different 2.6.2. Competely revamped interface, tag additions, theme preview, plug-in upgrades, on and on. They really have come a long way and have one of the most incredibly solid open source products on the market. It really is one of the most incredibly easy to use, modifiable blogging platforms on the market.

Well, word has it, the next version of Wordpress, is 2.7 and word has it, that it’s release date is in or around November 10th. Here is what we have to look forward to:

• New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
• New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
• Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
• Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
• Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
• Reply to comments from the admin
• Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
• Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
• Sticky Posts
• Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
• Automatic upgrade of WordPress
• HTTPOnly auth cookies
• New HTTP request API
• A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Feature list found via WPHacks.com

What isn’t to like with some of these features…you have to love built in Upgrading, Reply to comments, threaded comments, and plug-in installation. Those are some of the big ones that I have my eye on. What about you? What do you like and what would you like to see in 2.8 or 3.0???

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