What’s coming with Wordpress 2.7?
T.J. Mininday | Oct 23, 2008 | Comments 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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The one thing I would have liked to see would be for WordPress to do less by moving features into bundled plugins. I am starting to view things a little differently now though and see it as less of a platform and more of a finished product.
I know there is a revamp of the widgets system coming up so I am hoping that will not just be superficial but will make the system itself more object oriented.
Having seen the screenshots of the backend it looks gorgeous and as we use Wordpress on our own blog I’m looking forward to it. I’m also looking forward to stickies and inline editing, that could be quite useful – and auto-upgrading is a godsend!
I know, I think I’m going to put a post on my blog with screenshots, because it looks more like version 3.0, as opposed to 2.7. It’s amazing how much better it runs and how much better it looks then earlier versions. Not to mention, the themes are incredible.
Looking forward to release of 2.7. I need to upgrade a few of my sites.
I look forward to the many suggestions i have made in the ideas section on wordpress.org
Not another version i only just got used to 2.6 – in fact i preferred the older version 2.3 i think. Much easier to use.
Nice new features. I like the new inline editing of posts and pages. The only problem is that I am currently at wordpress 2.5 :(. I have to upgrade to 2.6 first.