WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 erschienen

Na, wer ist mutig und spielt mal eben WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 auf sein Produktivblog? Ende Juli soll übrigens die finale Version 2.6 erscheinen. Kein Riesensprung wie der auf WordPress 2.5 – aber nette Features sind hinzu gekommen.

Featuresliste:

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Übrigens: Nutzer von Desktopclients zum bloggen (Windows Live Writer, BlogDesk usw.) müssen ab Version 2.6 explizit einstellen, dass die Schnittstelle für diese Art Editoren geöffnet wird.