Wow! WordPress 2.9 has so many wonderful new features I can’t believe it. I’ve been playing with, and poking at, this new release for two days now and my favorite feature so far is this one:
“When you’re editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to that line after you save.”
OH-MY-GOSH! This is a HUGE timesaver and major stress decreaser.
Check out this video for an overview of the highlights:
Here are a few other 2.9 highlights:
- Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements. LOVE IT!!!
- Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
- Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
The release is full of other groovy upgrades designed to improve SEO and ease design efforts. Bravo Matt Mullenweg and team. Great job!
