Chet Baker on WordPress 2.8

WordPress 2.8 is out and with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor is  Chet Baker is American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer. I got new version of WordPress 2.8 from the Development blog

On WordPress 2.8 built with major new improvements, and this is some of the improvements. WordPress team has changed the way WordPress does style and scripting. So the WordPress blog will be load more faster than ever. There are 700 bugs fix from previous version. This is some of my favorite featured. Easy Theme Install and Updated, Powerful Widget, New CodePress interface, Screen options. I will try to explain more details about my favorite featured in WordPress 2.8

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Theme Easy Install and Update

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard. It’s my favorite featured so far 😉

Code Editor

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

Better Widget

If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.

New Screen Options

Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.

You can download wordpress 2.8 on this url, if you need what has been changed on previous version, you can check on this pages.
That’s why I love wordpress, I hope you like wordpress like I do 😉