WordPress 2.6 Released

The WordPress crew has just released the latest and greatest edition of WordPress, version 2.6, today. This release, named ‘Tyner’, brings even more fantastic features to our favorite open-source blogging platform, with some of the bigger features including:

  • Word count display below Save and Publish buttons
  • Theme pagination and a hot live preview feature
  • The number of plugin updates available is now shown in the Plugins tab
  • Ability to change the location of the wp-config.php file
  • Multiple plugin activate/deactivate; improved sorting
  • Admin page caching for faster speeds
  • Improved galleries
  • “Press This” bookmarklet for quick posting from anywhere on the web via your toolbar
  • Post revisioning
  • Drag-and-drop gallery sorting
  • Multiple checkbox selection (on Manage pages) using shift+click

The WordPress team has obviously been working hard to get this release out, and we thank them for all their efforts. You can download the latest version of WordPress from WordPress.org. You can also get the full skinny on version 2.6 from the WordPress Development Blog. Happy blogging!

Dan Philibin July 14th, 2008 Articles, WordPress

11 Responses to “WordPress 2.6 Released”

m@
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 2:29 am

Did this release fix the need for writing a mod_security entry for the image uploader? I’m excited to test this out tomorrow, but tonight it’s late. Thanks for all the good work, WordPress team!

Pasquale
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 3:12 am

Kinda weirded out that the update didn’t popup in my dashboard.

jez
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 6:05 am

yeah, same here: seems like it is not yet “through” to everyone.
My svn install alerted me, while my ordinary install elsewhere did crap at all ;)

Pasquale
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 6:07 am

I used the wp-auto upgrade plugin, and it didn’t reactivate my plugins grr. Had to do it by hand :P

Epic Alex
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 9:18 am

I love the new theme previewer, its the perfect solution if you ask me. I just wrote a plugin to use it on the front end too. I reckon that the official theme viewer should adopt that method as well. http://epicalex.com/epic-theme-viewer/

Hafiz Rahman
Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Had the same problem with Pasquale.. the auto upgrade plugin tend to fail after the database upgrade. At that phase the WP files have been upgraded so everything’s fine, it’s just that I had to reactivate the plugin manually. Still better than doing *everything* manually, though.

Tim Schmoyer
Posted on July 16th, 2008 at 11:20 am

I’m having serious issues getting my WP install updated. Whenever I try to upgrade to 2.6 locally, my homepage ends up blank. The admin section works fine in 2.6, but the homepage is blank. Kinda frustrating. Guess I’ll just wait for 2.6.1.

Marian Crkon
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

I did a live upgrade using Fantastico through my hosting service, and just like Ti above, ended up with a blank page. Anyone has an actual solution to that yet?

Thanks,

Marian

SMS Admin
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Well, I guess its time for me to upgrade my Blog as well. WP 2.6 have some nice additions esp theme viewer. :)

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