WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 Released

By Sandip Dedhia on May 17, 2009
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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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Sandip Dedhia

Sandip Dedhia

Sandip Dedhia is the founder of Blogsdna.com, he loves to write on technology, gadgets & web services. At Blogsdna you can read his Windows & freeware software related articles. He is on twitter too @sandipnd View author profile

  • http://www.shoutmeloud.com Harsh Agrawal

    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.

  • http://www.blogsdna.com Sandip

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

  • http://www.onlinetechtips.net/ terry

    WordPress is updating and updating and updating. . .

    Long Live WordPress

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