Here’s a quick post, just to let everybody know that I’m still alive.
During my long silence here, a lot of things have been happening in the WordPress community. First and foremost is the upcoming WordPress 2.8 release. There are several nifty new features in there. The most notable (for me) are probably:
- Built-in theme browser/installer
- Drag-n-drop widget management
- Syntax highlighting when using theme/plugin editor
- Image cropping in media uploader
- New theme functions for author metadata
- New OOP WP_Widget framework for plugin authors
- More support for custom taxonomies
- New combined i18n/escaping theme functions
- Script loading improvements
The first four are the main “visible” features for this release. [...]
WordPress 2.9 Features
This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.
The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]