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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!

While at WordCamp Dallas last weekend, Matt Mullenweg talked a bit about WordPress 2.6 and what’s to come with it. It seems someone in the audience managed to get it all on tape too!

Throughout the video, Matt touches on some WordPress Stats, the WordPress Theme Marketplace, and posting with WordPress via mobiles.

Maybe in the near future, I’ll write up a post on what I would personally like to see in WordPress 2.6.