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New in WordPress 2.7 trunk: QuickPress

Just uploaded the recent WordPress trunk version (nightly build) to test it out.

The first thing I discovered is a new feature labeled "QuickPress". It's basically a form which allows you to post (title, body text and tags) directly to your blog from your dashboard.

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I'm not too sure what to think about this. I think I preferred the old dashboard with recent comments, incoming links and so on.

WordPress 2.6 is out

Wow, one month ahead of schedule, WordPress 2.6 has been released. More about the new release at the WordPress.org development blog.

WordPress 2.6 Beta 2

No reason to add further words here, head over to Ryan Boren's post.

WordPress 2.6 beta and features

Check Ryan Boren's post for a list of WordPress 2.6 features and a link to the 2.6 beta.

Good stuff :-)

Lesson of the day: Open source software rocks

As those of you following me on Twitter (I'm larskjensen) may know, we recently launched our WordPress powered blog community.

For those of you who don't know what WordPress is (although you should! :-)) it's the state of the art blogging software - and it's open source and free of cost. For our blog community we use the multi user version of WordPress, the aptly named WordPress MU.

Well, we've had some problems with some of the themes of an older date. The CSS in them acts quite weird - most often in Internet Explorer 7…

Anyhow, I have an email correspondance with one of our bloggers and I tell him that either I'll try to find an update for the theme or otherwise we'll have to phase out the theme. But before I can do anything he has written me another mail telling me that there is an updated version of the theme and he also gives me the link.

So I translate the theme (by adding the _e and __ WordPress translation functions to .php files of the theme) and update my already existing language file with the new theme, upload it and email our most friendly user to tell him that the new theme is now online for him to test.

All this just to point out one thing: Open. Source. Software. Rules. :-)

PS: This blog is running on the single blog version of WordPress - of course.

New plugins handling in WordPress 2.6

I've already written about how WordPress 2.6 will support Google Gears, but on the lighter side of the administration interface changes are also changing place.

Today I noticed in the WordPress 2.6 trunk version that activated and deactivated plugins are now kept apart. Click image below for screenshot:

Although this is definitely a smaller change, I welcome it. As it is now, in WordPress 2.5, activated and deactivated plugins are mixed together giving you a some times very long list. That appears to be over as of 2.6 :-)

WordPress 2.6 to support Google Gears

You probably already know Google Gears - Google's browser plugin, that allows web applications to work in offline mode. This can be Google's own, for example Gmail or Google Docs, but developers can also use the Gears.

And that is what open source blogging sofware WordPress apparently aimes to do in the next version 2.6.

I just downloaded the most recent trunk build and noticed a "Speed up!" link in the top right corner of my WordPress administration interface. When you click it, this screen appears:

The first time you click "Install" you're taken to gears.google.com (if you don't have installed it yet), and after that you restart your browser, klik "Speed up!" again - and now you clik "Enable Google Gears".

Select that you trust WordPress, and now you just have to wait for Google Gears to update your WordPress files:

Nice!

James from Geniosity Musings has a good post on WordPress 2.6 + Google Gears (he has apparently experienced some speed ups!). Also check Google Blog Search to see what others are saying (sorted by time).

Sadly, Google Gears doesn't support the browser I use the most (Firefox 3 trunk).

An early look at the new widget management in WordPress 2.5

Since WordPress 2.4 has been canceled the developers now have a lot more time on their hands to redesign the admin section in the next release, which will be WordPress 2.5.

In the latest build of WordPress you can get a look at the new widget management in WordPress 2.5, view large version.

Instead of the current widget system, where you drag the widgets from a "pool" to your sidebar, you know add the widgets using the list of gray boxes in the left hand side of the page. The widget then appears under "current widgets" where you can use drag and drop to change the order of the widgets.

This means that you, apparently, can add as many copies of a certain type of widget as you please. I'm not sure how this works on themes with multiple sidebars, however…

WordPress 2.5 is currently set for release on March 24th.

WordPress DK now finally at da.wordpress.org

René, the lead translator of WordPress DK, has an exiting post at wordpress.dk.

The Danish WordPress project has now been given a subsite at the official WordPress.org: da.wordpress.org.

I still think that most Danish users will end up on wordpress.dk (because of Google Rank and the forum which stays there) but none the less it's great with an official site. This means a lot to the WordPress DK project and shows that it's not just some guys who are translating for fun (and might stop doing it some day) but that WordPress DK is a serious project, that the Danish users can count on.

The official subsite also features a blog, meaning that there are two WordPress DK blogs. As I've written in a comment at WordPress DK I suggest the following:

The da.wordpress.org blog is about new releases with more in depth posts on what's new, known issues and such
The wordpress.dk blog (where I contribute) will be for everything else: tips, hints, suggestions etc. The wordpress.dk blog will also feature shorter posts on new versions with links to the more thorough da.wordpress.org post.

This will, the way I see it, make it easier for both posters/contributors and end users to get a good overview on where to find what.

Anyways, congrats to René!

WordPress 2.4 is cancelled, is now 2.5

The lead translater of the Danish version of open source blogging software WordPress, René, writes on the official WordPress DK blog, that WordPress 2.4 has been cancelled.

The reason is that there are too many corrections to be made, and therefore WP 2.4 could not be ready until March. The next WordPress release will be 2.5, which is set to be out on March 24th.

A Google blog search shows that WPAssist also has a post on this.

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