WordPress 2.8.1 Beta has been released by WordPress. WordPress testers can download the new version.
Here are some of the features of WordPress 2.8.1 Beta:
- New Theme Installer routines
- Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
- Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
- Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
- Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
- Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
- Don’t notify post author of own comments
- Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
- Add column “Rating” in Administration > Links > Edit
- Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
- Per Page option for plugins
- Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
- Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
- Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
- Support more than one gallery on the same page
- Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
- Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
- Fix most popular link category list
- Add description field for tags
- “Choose a city in the same timezone as you” for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
- In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
- Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
- Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
- Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
- Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers
See all the features of WordPress 2.8.1 Beta here.
Download WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 (.zip) now and try it out. Since its a beta release, I don’t recommend you to try it on your primary blog.
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