Holiday Presents: WordPress 2.9
12/20/09 at 8:33 AM
Automattic wanted to give everyone an early gift and released WordPress 2.9 yesterday in an official announcement.
Some of the features you will see include:
- Global undo/”trash” feature - allows you to bring back posts and comments that were accidentally deleted (Matt Mullenweg said this was his favorite feature at WordCamp NY last month)
- Built-in image editor - allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images (we’ve been waiting for this one for a while)
- Batch plugin update and compatibility checking – update 10 plugins at once (this one still makes us nervous)
- Easier video embeds – paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code (we do still like Viper’s Video Quicktags, but it could be helpful)
- Automatic database optimization support – those technically inclined can enable in your
wp-config.php(could be a nice addition) - Upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing (always happy with editor improvements)
While this is an exciting release (boy, they have been busy this year), we are recommending that our clients hold off for 2.9.1 to arrive, which should be sometime in early 2010. We always advise holding off on point-zero releases because of our past experiences with them.