Comments on: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6

By: sean808080

sean808080 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:57:25 +0000

i always look before i jump into an upgrade. this is exactly what i was looking for. great work !

By: Ensio

Ensio — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:32:24 +0000

Have you tried Flock 1.2.2 Blog editor?
Very interesting!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:13:31 +0000

Dennis-

I pay attention to the development mailing list, the changes that are going into the code, etc. If you want to know what’s in the release, you can follow the same steps I do. It’s open source! You’re empowered!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:09:18 +0000

I don’t get how you can know all this if the product doesn’t even exist yet. I have always tried to find out about product ahead of time so I can help my clients but most of the time I end up waiting until one of those Dummy books comes out. I,of course, appreciate that you are informing people but what if it doesn’t release like you say?

By: Betsy Buchanan

Betsy Buchanan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:59:07 +0000

Wow what a lot of great useful information that has made me stop and question if I really want to use WordPress or not on my next blog that I am so anxious to start creating. I have been asking around for some time now, trying to decide which way to go and you have pointed out some things that I had not heard about.
Thanks for giving me a few more things to think about before jumping in and I thank you for your time and sharing important things like this with amateurs like myself in my blogging attempts.
Respectfully yours,
Betsy Buchanan

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:03:45 +0000

Anyone knows if the “press-it” feature will return hotlinked images from the websites ‘pressed’(annoying and unfair method), or will it use a method of auto-upload (via cURL or something), just like tumblr does sweetly? – Otherwise I’ll stick to 2.5 until other major WP updates are up

By: bfa internetauftritt

bfa internetauftritt — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:53:02 +0000

Tried beta1 and liked it so far. There’s still room for improvement though, i.e. navigational functions: Something to easily grab parent and childs of current page, for two tier navigation (top bar and sidebar, as av. in most CMS).

By: AskApache

AskApache — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:58:23 +0000

Very very very cool! I love the prepare, love the xml-rpc disabled, LOVE the press-this… Can’t wait to upgrade, thanks for the heads-up!

By: sean808080

sean808080 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:34:10 +0000

as a _very_ new convert to wordpress, i’m impressed with the turnaround for adding new features. this is such a robust platform and i look forward to learning more about it.

By: 50er

50er — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:31:27 +0000

So, when would the hosted WordPress blogs at wordpress.com see this changes?

By: devjargon

devjargon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:15 +0000

WordPress has a very interesting versioning system. From 2.4.x to 2.5 I can understand because 2.5 had a lot of updates and took a long time to come out. But to me, this should really only be a minor upgrade. I don’t think theres enough to warrant 2.6

By: moserw

moserw — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:37:33 +0000

Thanks for lifting the lid. Looks like a lot of effort has gone into WordPress 2.6 and it looks to be great from here on. Hoping it comes out soon.

By: Darren Alawi

Darren Alawi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:37 +0000

Any word on fixes for the image management/upload?

Been very annoying for so many users.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:55:12 +0000

Yep, that’s what I said Doug. :)

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:39:13 +0000

I just read that the issue with turning off XML-RPC by default has been resolved. It will be turned off by default for new installations – but not upgrades.

By: OpenSourceMarketer

OpenSourceMarketer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:04:48 +0000

Aaron, thanks for the in-depth preview of 2.6. I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 since it was announced at WordCamp Dallas and it has been a fantastic improvement. You mentioned support for multiple checkbox selection, can you tell us if multiple images inserts will be supported as well. Today it’s possible to upload multiple images through the admin, but multiple-insert has been missing and I don’t count the gallery insert as a workable option for all situations.

Thanks,

Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com

By: Charles Stricklin

Charles Stricklin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:07:59 +0000

Ah! This clears up a few things. Jonathan and I recorded episode 44 a few days ago and attempted to go over 2.6 based upon the posts available, but they were all mostly bullet lists and didn’t go into much detail. As always, your “previews” of upcoming WordPress releases puts things into context and explains them further. Thanks!