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WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” Released

On 16th July 2008 @ 01:45 pm by Arul N S

: WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” Released

Yesterday, Matt officially announced the release of WordPress 2.6 codenamed “Tyner” to the blogging community. WordPress release codename’s are named after jazz musicians and continuing with the tradition, 2.6 has been named after McCoy Tyner. It contains many new features that makes WordPress a more powerful CMS (Content Management System).

One of the most important features of this release is Version Control System which enables Wiki-like tracking of edits similar to Wikipedia. This would be a very handy feature which enables the users to just undo and go back to a previous version of the post.

Another major feature introduced in this version is display of captions alongside the images. The example can be seen in the WordPress logo displayed in top of this post. [Looks like alignment of captions has an issue. I am not just able to get it aligned]

Theme previews would be loved by any serious WordPress user. It was a long awaited feature. It enables to preview the theme, tweak and correct your mistakes before the whole world sees it.

: Gears : Turbo Charge your WordPress

WordPress uses Gears (previously known as Google Gears), an open source browser extension project started by Google. It is primarily for developers to manage offline storage thus enabling you to get a little extra juice. It maintains a cache or keeps a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WP 2.6 only uses the cache concept and the future versions are promised with more features in collaboration with Gears.

Other notable features in this release of WordPress are

Word Count are displayed in the side bar when writing or editing the posts.
You can reorder the gallery just by drag and drop.
Bulk management of plugins. Just enable or disable all plugins in a single click.
“Press This” bookmarklet which enables you to blog from anywhere just by clicking a boomarklet in your browser.
More advanced image control enabling easy insertion, resizing. Also shifting from Flash uploader to the classic uploader is easy.
Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions. Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

With all these new features, I decided to jump the bandwagon without having to wait for my Hosting company to update the Fantastico which will help me automatically upgrade my WordPress installation. Now bit Feed is powered by WordPress 2.6

Tags: Blogs, Firefox, Google, Matt, Open Source, Wordpress
Category: Wordpress | 6 Comments

Online WordPress Theme Generator

On 12th July 2008 @ 11:40 pm by Arul N S

For those who blog with WordPress.com or have their self hosted WordPress and think that CSS stands for Canadian Secret Service, they might have been frustrated when they attempt to customise their WP theme to their liking. Even though there are loads of themes available in the World Wide Web, its a pain finding them and they testing each and every one of them to find that some element in the entire theme is not great. You would have wished that if only there was a tool that just gives you the output what you wished. Thanks to Jaroslaw Dobrzanski, we have a Online WordPress Theme Generator. People who love a simple, minimalistic WP theme would fall in love this generator.

You can customise the look of your blog, without having to know what is CSS or PHP… You can change the colours, fonts, layout, header and all other settings. The best part of all is that you can see the output right away when in the preview pane. So if you don’t like the way how it turned out, then just redo it till you get it right. Once you are done perfecting the theme, just download the zip, and unzip and load it right away into your dashboard.