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WordPress 2.8 is now available in its beta release, and there are more than one reason to rejoice for WordPress lovers. The stable release is expected soon, and from reviews so far, it looks like one of the best upgrades ever. If you haven’t tried yet, try it out on your test server and check out the admin panel. You’ll be up for a surprise.
And here are 10 reasons why you should upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (when it is stable that is)
Now changing your theme is just like searching for a plugin from the admin area. You can search wordpress themes based on the usual criteria’s like two column / three column, preview themes and activate it all right from the Dashboard. no more FTP stuff, man, life just got easier !
For your own comments, now WordPress won’t send a confirmation email. It would still send them for other users comments but not you, the admin. Clever !
WordPress realizes that you already know that what you’re marking as spam is indeed spam. No more prompts or confirmations here, once marked spam, always a spam !
How many times have you tried to fix that problem child plugin from the dashboard only to find that there are more files which you have to edit via FTP ? Well, this issue is now sorted as WP now allows you to edit all plugin files right from the Admin dashboard.
Yay ! so that means even if you typed “admin” instead of “Admin”, WP would still let you through.
Every time I had to re-arrange the widgets, it meant lot of trouble. As changing one widget would mean, I had to save it elsewhere. This problem (and other widget problems) are now sorted as WP allows you a better widget management.
No more messy Admin area. you decide what remains and what not. Also WP now allows you to select from a grid format of admin widgets.
So that means better function references and error free editing for themes and plugins !
On WP2.8 there will be an exclusive Tags area where from you can manage all tags for each posts. Much like what we see in HeadSpace plugin.
This would give hope for blogs on Microsoft server platforms, and now they too can change to pretty permalinks with no server errors whatsoever, without using work arounds.
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It’s great to see that WordPress is putting a lot of effort into the upgrade, personally I hate to see too much effort go into the admin redesign as it freaks a lot of non technical people out but the upgrade looks great.
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That’s a great round up.
I think my favourite feature is the theme upgrade functionality, though it could spell problems for people who haven’t used plugins or widgets to bolt on extra functionality to their blog. If they updated their theme files directly .. bang .. changes disappear on upgrade
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This is really exciting! I can’t decide what I am most excited about. Maybe number 9.
Thanks for the wrap up of improvements.
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Case insensitive passwords are a bad thing. Any time you weaken security for the sake of the lazy user, you’re opening yourself up to potential attacks.
everything else sounds good though.
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Yeah I like WP 2.8! It offers tons of flexibility and some great management options.
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I think we already have point number 7 in wordpress 2.7
meanwhile I will wait for the stable release before the update
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Hi there,
When it comes to an application upgrade, it is always recommended to stay a version behind. Unless otherwise you are sure that they realease is a stable one.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
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