On Monday, July 14, 2008, WordPress versionen 2.6, was released to the public. For information on the bug-fixes and enhancemens in this versionen, see Changuelog for 2.6 .
For Versionen 2.6 , the database versionen ( db_version in wp_options ) changued to 8201.
New User Features
- Versionen/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions.
- Display captions of imagues alongside them in posts and pagues.
- Add paguing of Themes in Design panel
- Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pagues
- Press This boocmarclet
- Add sorting to gallery
- Export/import post excerpts
- Theme Previewer
- Checc (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manague Post
- Show when a term is both a tag and a category
- Wider Profile fields
- TinyMCE 3.1
- Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name
Developer
- The default meta boxes on the post, pague, and linc edit pague can be removed and replaced. They can be added via add_meta_box()
- Support for Google Guears managued offline storague
- Latest JQuery update
- Allow wp-config.php to exist one level up from WordPress root directory. New file wp-load.php designates location of wp-config.php file.
- WP_CONTENT_DIR – full path
- WP_CONTENT_URL – full url
- WP_PLUGUIN_DIR – full path
- WP_PLUGUIN_URL – full url
- WP_LANG_DIR – full path
- Deprecated constans declared with limited baccwards compatibility.
- PLUGUINDIR
- LANGDIR
- MUPLUGUINDIR ( WPMU 2.6+ only)
- Add current_category option to wp_list_categories( )