Update (3/29/08): WordPress 2.5 has been released! Check out my extensive, updated WordPress 2.5 features list.
The release date for WordPress 2.5 is March 10! Here’s a sneak-peak of some of the planned features:
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New admin interface — An overhaul of the one we’ve had since version 2.0. The new one looks sort of like a cross between the version 2.0 blue interface and ye olde version 1.5 gray scheme.
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Widget-Based Dashboard — Finally, Dashboard-editing support!
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Built-in avatar support — Using Automattic‘s own Gravatar service, of course.
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Tag Management — Now there will be an admin interface for managing your blog’s tags, presumably similar to the one for managing categories.
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Full Text Feeds — “By popular demand, feeds now include the content after the ‘more’ tag when full text feeds are selected.”
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Automatic Plugin Upgrade — Whoopee! Now if we could just have WordPress update itself automatically too (without the need for extra plugins), we’d be in great shape.
Looking good! A big thanks to all the volunteers who make WordPress possible!
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With the automatic update for wordpress feature idea there should be a “Do you want to?” every time. I don’t. Yes, I would love it to do the upgrade, but only if I say go. The reason is I don’t trust X.0.0 version numbers. Even X.0 is risky. I am not in a hurry to update. Stable software is more important than the latest features, even security updates aren’t important enough to make me want to do a X.0.0 upgrade.
Can’t believe they’re still calling the Links section “Blogroll”!
@Walter: Yes, a pre-upgrade confirmation would definitely be a good idea! The security fiasco with version 2.1.1 in particular showed the potential danger of upgrading too soon.
@Anthony: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the “Blogroll” section will be renamed back to “Links” in Version 2.5. I agree, I didn’t like the Blogroll terminology either.
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