mandrillThis peice of news comes as a relief to me; as of next week, once WP2.5 is released, the problems with the layout of this post should be a thing of the past. An excerpt from the Blog Herald’s WordPress Wednesday post detailing some of the improvements follows the jump.
From The Blog Herald:
New Features in WordPress 2.5 I’ve been alerting you to many new features in WordPress 2.5 like the new Media Library, automatic upgrades and improved tag features, and here are some more goodies to look forward to with next week’s release:
- Search Improved: The long requested improvements to the WordPress built-in search functions have been implemented and search now includes Pages as well as posts. Those using Plugins or search add-ons might want to try it out and compare which does the best job for your search efforts, though some search Plugins might not work with the new improvements.
- Avatars Built-in: Ryan Boren makes it official, avatars using the Gravatar Plugin is now incorporated into WordPress. Weblog Tools Collection wrote up the information on the new
get_avatar()function to help WordPress Theme developers update their Themes and those who want to write Plugins based on the new avatar function.- Upload More Than One Image: The new Media Library will finally return back to pre-WordPress 1.5 days with multiple file uploading (the crows goes wild!).
- New Image Size Options: With the addition of a “medium” size, WordPress bloggers will now have thumbnail, medial, and full size options to resize their images on the go.
- WordPress Plugins Installer: Developers are working overtime to add an easy to use Plugin Installer, which should also include alerts and announcements of updates or advisories about the Plugin on the WordPress Administration Panels.
- Improved Embedding and Searching: WordPress 2.5 offers improved embedding without the need for Plugins to handle images, audio, video, and more from various off-site services and self-hosted. The Media Library also will feature searching, so you don’t have to flip through the numerous pages and pages of thumbnails to find the image you want to reuse.
- No More ALIGN: WordPress Theme designers are required now to include CSS classes to accommodate the new alignment options for images and video: align-left, align-right, and align-center. They also need to include padding around image and video files so the text doesn’t squish against them, and users don’t come using to the Support Forums asking how to fix this.
- Don’t Touch! I’m Editing Here: A problem many multiple bloggers blogs have had with WordPress is the inability to tell when two people are working on the same post at the same time. They’ve just added a new feature that tests for “post edit collisions” and notifies you if someone is working on the same post as you are.
- Plugin and Theme Authors Get More Hooks: A serious attempt to totally “hook up” WordPress has been underway in the last few versions, with even more in this version. Adam Brown has put together WordPress Hooks Database in an attempt to track all of the new and deprecated hooks. If you are a WordPress Plugin or Theme author, it’s time to get up close and personal with WordPress Hooks.
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