WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 Released

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1It has been more than 5 months to any new release of WordPress. In December we had reported about start of WordPress 2.8 Development journey and after long 5 months of development work WordPress Team has released first beta version of WordPress 2.8.

However WordPress 2.8  Beta 1 is suggest for testing purpose only and should not be deployed on your live blogs. Due to time constraint many features was left out of WordPress 2.7 and it was decided to get them in WordPress 2.8. Hence we may expect big changes as well as several new features in WordPress 2.8.

List of Big Changes in WordPress 2.8

1. New Theme Installer (You can now search Themes from your Admin Dashboard)

2. Introduction of New Widget API

3. Ability to install Plugins in .zip format

4. Js Script Loader Improvements

5. TinyMCE 3.2.3

6. Several Bug Fixes

Check out rest of WordPres 2.8 Features

Download WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

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Reader Comments

Just saw this update on Twitter and seems like wordpress is keeping up its promise by giving the best of feature with every new release.

Written By Harsh Agrawal
on May 18th, 2009

Yes Harsh, That’s what makes wordpress a best blogging platform.

Written By Sandip
on May 18th, 2009

Wordpress is updating and updating and updating. . .

Long Live Wordpress

Written By terry
on May 18th, 2009

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