Originally published on April 24, 2008. Updated on May 5, 2008.
WordPress 2.6 may not be due until August 2008, but already I’ve managed to compile a list of features and enhancements that we’ll likely be seeing in this next major WordPress release. (I’ll continue to update this post as we approach the release date.)
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Post Revisions — Wiki-style revisions management for blog posts: a cool new power-feature, just announced on the WordPress Development Updates blog.
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Shift-Click Checkbox Selection — In WordPress 2.6, you should be able to select a range of checkboxes in the category, comment, tag, post, page, and media administration sections by checking the “start” checkbox, holding the Shift key, and then checking the “end” checkbox… Gmail style.
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Post Word Count — A WordPress.com feature that might be making its way into WordPress 2.6.
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The Meta Bookmarklet — Okay, so that’s not the official name, but that’s what I’m calling it until there is one. Matt talked about this at WordCamp Dallas — the idea is to have a bookmarklet that would pre-fill information from sites like YouTube, etc. For example, imagine clicking the bookmarklet when you’re watching a YouTube video and then having a new blog post setup for you with the video already embedded. Cool, huh?
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NEW: Identicons — In WordPress 2.6 you’ll have the ability to select a default Gravatar for those who don’t have one.
Thoughts? Ideas? Add a comment below!
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hm, this “bookmarklet”-thingy sound interessing
embedding content is always kinda… tricky… if you have 2 left hands with 5 thumbs on each of it 
Wow. That Bookmarklet on Acid thing sounds as sweet as apple pie. I would love to see that.
i’m really waiting for native OpenID support, i don’t need those checkboxes improvements!
A better custom fields management is welcome.
I would rather see all the current and past problems resolved than anything you listed here fixed first. No need for a new version unless these old problems are fixed.
Go browse the forums for many many people going there to get answers.
Sure there is a lot of responses, 60% of these are never resolved and just die.
Wordpress needs a more organized forum, better support, and resolve problems with current releases before planning anything newer.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Wordpress,
(When it works)
I’d like to see the “page order” thing done. That has been sitting as “it’ll be better in future versions” for awhile–about time to fix it up?
The bookmarklet sounds amazing, as it will totally change some people’s views on blogs. At school people think blogging is all about ranting and doing long posts, yet it can be as simple as a video or a twitter-like update.
Speaking along the idea of twitter, it’d be great to have some kind of “feed importer” that goes and republishes posts. Tumblr has something like it. Not saying this would be able to make it into 2.6 (I don’t know how this would work, exactly–maybe wordpress.com could do something to this extent), but it would be cool.
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