Whats new in WordPress 2.9
World’s most favorite blogging software WordPress even got better with its new version (2.9) released yesterday. Undoubtedly WordPress is a leader in blogging software as it offers so many features compared to other popular blogging softwares and sites.
The latest version (2.9) of self-hosted WordPress (wordpress.org) is now available for download at wordpress.org. These are the new features included in this version.
1. Built-in Image Editor
Finally now WordPress comes with Image Editor. You can crop, rotate, flip and scale your images online without leaving the wordpress control panel with few clicks. This feature will be very useful for the people who regularly include a pictures from other sites. In normal case you have to download the picture, edit it and upload it. But now you can do all basic image editing inside WordPress itself.
To open the image editor click on the media link in WordPress Dashboard, click on edit link near to the image and then click on the Edit Image button.
In the Image Editor you can crop the image, rotate left or right, flip vertically and horizontally and scale image to a particular size. Also you can Undo and Redo your actions.
2. Easy Video Embed with oEmbed
In WordPress 2.9 you can embed a video by just pasting the one line video URL, rest things WordPress will take care.
For eg if you want to insert a video from Youtube then you have to just copy and paste the Youtube URL(youtube.com/watch?v=xxx) – no need to copy the entire embed code. With the help oEmbed API, WordPress will get full details about the video like height, weight, original url, author, provide etc.
3. Batch Plugin update
With this new feature you can update up to 10 plugins at once and with the new plugin compatibility check feature you can find out the compatibility of a plugin with latest wordpress releases.
5. Global Undo
Now with WordPress 2.9 you can Undo a delete and bring back a deleted post or comment from the trash so no need to worry about accidental delete.
These are some major features included with WordPress 2.9 in user point of view. Apart from these WordPress team included many internal technical features and bugs correction with this this latest release.
If you love Worpress then you will definitely like these features too. As per the WordPress blog features like Image Editor are just a beginning of a new wave so we can expect lot more from the undisputed leader in blogging software.
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