The first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was announced last night. The adventurous among you can download it for testing. New features include:
- Faster load times.
- Multi-file uploads.
- New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
- Built-in gallery function.
- Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
- New backend design.
- One-click auto-update for plugins.
- Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ action. (my feature!
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As a long-time WordPress user and developer, the new design for the back-end admin screens threw me at first. [...]












WordPress Wednesday Kick Off
This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]