WordPress 2.9 has been released: Cool new features

WordPress 2.9 has been released. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org. It requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. There are really some coolest new features are included to help the users.

Following are the some of the new features of WP 2.9

Trash status for posts, pages, and comments

If you by mistake delete a post, page or comment then you can restore it form the Trash. Or you can permanently delete it from the Trash, where it’ll remain for the next 30 days. Just like email account in Yahoo or Google.

Built in image editor

There is a built in image editor in wp 2.9 . The editing functions are pretty basic. You will be able to crop, resize, scale, flip and rotate images. To edit your images go to your media library, choose the image you want to change, and click on the new “Edit Image”.

rel=canonical support

This is going to help in SEO of your blog.

Batch plugin update

Now it will very easy for you to update your plugins because you can  update 10 plugins in one step, from the Upgrade menu.

Media embeds

By using this feature, you can embed Flickr images, YouTube videos, Daily Motion, Blip.tv in your posts by providing the URl.

Post Thumbnails

This will allow you to easily add a post image of any dimension wherever you want in a theme. This is particularly useful for magazine-style themes.

Automatic database optimization support

There are lot of other new features included in wordpress 2.9 which definitely going to prove very helpful.

• Wordpress 2.0.4 Update
• Advantages of Using Wordpress to Publish a Newspaper Blog
• Design Blog Improvement

Tags: WordPress 2.9, wp 2.9

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