Written by WordPress 2.9 is about to release, and here are some key features from use end:
User Features
- Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete)
- Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
- Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
- Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
- rel=canonical for singular pages
- Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
- Correct comments and remove unecessary echos from the default themes sidebar templete file
- Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
- Support location of category templates based on category slug as well as id
- Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
- Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
- Remove Sphere from search list
- Minify admin CSS
- Show correct max upload filesize error message
- Add rel attribute to next/previous post links
- Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
- Clean up .button and .button[disabled] CSS classes, add spinner and gray-out buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
- Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
- Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
- Define $content_width for Kubrick
- Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
- Display comments in descending date order, consistently
- Add means of automatically repairing tables
- Fix Press This bookmarklet for Safari 4
- Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
- Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
- Image editing
- Retire BunnyTags importer
- Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
- Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
- Update SimplePie to 1.2
- Press This fixes
- Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
You can get or add more details at http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9
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