http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/<\/a><\/p>\nNew Features:<\/p>\n
Completely Redesigned Backend \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The first thing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice when you login to your blog is the backend has been completely overhauled for both aesthetics and usability. This is the first iteration of exciting things to come from the Shuttle team of designers that has been volunteering their time, and look for even more aesthetic improvements in the future. <\/p>\n
Faster Administration \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Call it AJAX, call it DHTML, call it Larry, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve paid close attention to streamlining some of the most common tasks in managing your blog. For example if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re writing a post and you can add categories on the fly, much like tagging in Flickr. Also instead of having two separate UIs for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153simple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153advanced\u00e2\u20ac\u009d posting, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve combined them and let you customize the layout of the page on the fly by dragging and dropping the dialogs around. It saves where you put things so when you return it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just like you left it. When you delete a comment or category it will fade out without a page load. <\/p>\n
WYSIWYG Editing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d WP dev Andy Skelton and the TinyMCE team have done a tremendous amount of work to bring a smooth WYSIWYG editing experience to WordPress. As code purists, we are very picky about what kind of HTML is generated, and while it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not perfect yet (for instance nested lists can cause trouble) for 95% of what you do post-to-post the WYSIWYG should save you time. And if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, you can turn it off on your profile page. One note: Safari and older versions of Opera, both fantastic browsers, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet support everything that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed to do WYSIWYG, but we fully expect new versions of those browsers will continue to improve their standards support, so it may just be a matter of time.
\nIncluded Spam and Backup Plugins \u00e2\u20ac\u201d We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve included two of the most popular WordPress plugins: Skippy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s DB backup can backup your database to a file and optionally email you a copy; Akismet is a distributed anti-spam system which gets smarter the more people use it. <\/p>\n
Resizable Editing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d This is one of my personal favorite features. Ever been writing a post and that textarea seemed a little small? Happens to me all the time, and our new rich text editor includes a feature that lets you resize the editor on-the-fly by clicking on the corner, just like a regular window. <\/p>\n
Inline Uploading \u00e2\u20ac\u201d We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve optimized our uploader for image, audio, and video files and put it inline with the posting screen. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to bounce around any more when writing a post! It also will organize your files for you as you upload them to make them easier to find later. On the backend, each uploaded file is actually a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sub-post\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so it can have individual comments and pingbacks, its own permalink, and even a custom template based on what type of file it is. You can click on attached files to get a menu of options, or if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on Firefox you can drag and drop them into your WYSIWYG editor. <\/p>\n
Faster Posting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress. <\/p>\n
Post Preview \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Another enhancement to the post screen, now when you save a post it shows a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.
\nStreamlined Importing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve rewritten our import system from the ground up to be much easier to use (you no longer have to edit files), put it behind authentication, and also made it easy for new importers to be dropped into the system, much like plugins. <\/p>\n
User Roles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d We had a ton of feedback on our old numerical user level system. No one was exactly sure what those numbers meant! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve distilled the basic functions into a set of roles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as administrator, editor, contributor \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that make it easier to understand what sort of capabilities you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re giving your blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s users. The new system is completely pluggable too, so plugins can modify roles and create groups that have access to certain things. <\/p>\n
Header Customization \u00e2\u20ac\u201d If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re tired of the blue header in the default theme, you can now change the colors and text of it, which we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve included as a demo of some of the new features available to theme authors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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