WordPress 2.6 has been released and they included a video that highlights the changes with the obligatory British gentleman narration.
Also I just wanted to add that since 2.5.1 I have had this weird bug where my comments in moderation always showed incorrectly. I thought 2.6 had fixed it but now it just always shows 0 comments in moderation =(
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Wow! Great.. Thanks for the news. I am leaving to Wordpress.org…
I already upgraded and blogged about it
Good that all plugins are working, but plugin count in w-admin does not show up correctly..
Word count, press this are all some good new additions
I just upgraded to 2.5.1 on Friday. Well… I guess I need to find time to do another upgrade. Thanks!
It actually fixed my issue of having comments in moderation displaying inaccurately
I already blogged about it but thanks for the news
Cool, gives me something to do tonight.
hope it would also fix my thread comments issue on my blog too…
I Like with “Turbo” Gears and Word Count features on this version
Good to hear that!
yep that was the issue in the 2.5.1 quick update…
But here, you see a box showing no. of active plugins in the right side? It shows as 11 active but actually 21 plugins are active in my blog.
You see something like that?
I like turbo “Gears’” and word count in this version..So..what do you think about integrated “Google Gear” and Wordpress, how it can be give a big huge to SEO
As always thanks for the update! However the video isn’t working for me.
Just upgraded myself. I like the word count feature and I think I’m going to try the “Press This” feature.
Well, looks like I’ll have to upgrade!
I wish there was some kind of wordpress subscription service that would make upgrades happen automatically! It’s a bummer when you have more than a handful of blogs to update…
Thanks for the update. Gonna go do it now as not to forget.
upon further review now it always only shows 0 comments awaiting moderation…. so dunno wtf..
I upgraded some hours ago. Hopefully nobody publishes a WP 2.6 exploit.
Why not ask your host to just upgrade the wordpress platform in cpanel section, and it becomes easier for you to upgrade through one click, only if you are using cpanel hosting.
And the problem with the British narration is…?
I’m impressed that you went with British instead of just English though, clearly you’ve travelled more than your erstwhile President !!!
Time to update the server to make sure all sites get this option in fantastico
I’m trademarking the term “Terdpress”
Looks like a nice release. As far as exploits, I am not sure this was a security release? Or am I wrong?
I’m already tired of all these new wordpress versions..
Pleased because of new and improve features make our tasks easy, also a miserable thing to do update a handful of blogs!
Thanks for the heads-up. Gotta love the SVN update, quick and easy! Anybody else not get notified via the release notification mailing list?
Love the press this” improvement in particular.
Ronda
its pretty annoying when they bring out updates to wp every few weeks.
It does seem like a lot of updates but I guess it is good that they are actively improving the product.
I preferred the old dashboard better than this new one.
I know the old one was clunkier, but I just preferred it.
Continual development is what we need. Never ending improvements and updates.
Too be fair though, It isn’t like Tony Blair would dare correct him
I am so frustrated with Blogger. I know I need to switch, but afraid that I will muck it up fairly bad!
Let’s see how long before people figure out how to hack this verison!
That ‘British’ guy is actually South African
I love that WP updates so much. they are f—ing ON IT!!!
This update was actually on that I appreciated. The revision option is great if you are in collaboration with someone. It is the best improvement in this update.
Shannon
Do you use Wordpress or Wordpress MU? Does Wordpress MU include the new Wordpress version? Thanks!
Bugs are no bueno! Other than the bug you have now Shoe how do you like the latest 2.5+ version of WordPress?
I have a few plugins like 10 or so so was wondering if anyone noticed any issues with theirs when they upgraded?
I know Joost posted a fix to wp_footer if I am not mistaken.
Haha! I am half British and I totally welcome the accent after living here for a year in the States! It’s a nice change of pace.
Any problems with certain browsers?
Looks like I need to block off some site maintenance time now for a new update. I hope all my plug-ins are ready for it.
Anything above Wp 2.3 sucks
Cool, thanks for the update
I think its great. They just have to fix some bugs.
Testing, testing… comments.
Do you (visitors) use Wordpress or Wordpress MU?
Yup, time to do this later when I get home. Make sure to backup!
Neat new options, at least its not an invisible upgrade those that you don’t know what changed after installing.
Wordpress MU is multi-user platform and most of them won’t see a need of it unless they are creating a community of blogs.. So its Wordpress which we use.
I still using the old 2.3 version and it work fine for me. Should I have to upgrade? Is it necessary?
Yes, that’s what I alraedy heard. Is that true?
That’s what I hate when upgrading and that’s why I still use my old 2.3 version. I can’t stand spend all that time testing plugins. BTW, do you upgrade your plugins? I always use the latest version of my used plugins, I even blogged about the plugins that I use and that every blogger should use in my opinion:
http://www.zakshow.com/2008/07/14/list-of-necessary-wordpress-plugins/
you have also a small problem on pages with a lot of comments. after 300 comments the page breaks
Some nice new features. Really like the post revision thing. FINALLY a word count on the side
Sweet. Installing it now.
Damnit, I just went and updated like 15 blogs all the way up to 2.5! Whats that plugin that will act as a “master” and anything you do to it will work on slave blogs you have spread out on different servers and such? I definitely need to look into that.
I haven’t upgraded yet…but probably i’ll upgrade by this week.
I have upgraded. It was a very smooth update if you have automatic upgrade plugin
I just upgraded my wp. very smooth process
if you ask me, yes it is necessary. otherwise why would they be releasing new versions ?
its’ called Wordpress MU. check this link for documentation: http://mu.wordpress.org
Just to keep up the work :p and sometimes older version is too much better than new ones for a lot of stuff!
Yeah I had a fun bug too when I installed it, apparently you need to logout then re-login to get back into admin after the install. Doh
To avoid your blog getting haxored.
2.6.1 will probably be out in a couple weeks hehehehehe
haha I just found the easter egg! very clever wordpress
Thanks for the link. Very handy.
wow those new features look great, especially the revisions and press this.
i’ll wait…i never like being the first one to upgrade…looks like some really nice features have been added though so I will probably test it on my small sits first
Thats a featurefull release..
Thanks for the update
Yes I’m upgrading as well.
I’m having that issue myself but I’m just going to let it be and have it ifx itself…hopefully!
hahaha, I actually upgraded the first week of July to 2.5 from 2.3 mainly because of I was scared to lose all my info and then today I had to gain the courage to do it all over again. Phew! Its finally over!
I like the idea of word count considering that sometimes I find it hard to write a 1000 word paper for school but very easy to write a 1000 word blog post!
Hey Melvin, whats the issue youre having with threaded comments? Also, are you using Brian’s Threaded Comments or something else?
They actually have a 3-step guide to upgrading so its not that bad actually. You might want to give that a shot, I did it myself and I fear updating my blog to a newer version.
hahaha, shouldn’t it be Turdpress? Either way, I think Wordpress is probably the most customizable blog platform out there.
I had gotten used to it myself after a while but I added “Fluency Admin” (search for it on Google) and it actually makes it more pleasing to use.
I believe so at least thats whats floating around.
I have about 25 plugins and there was one plugin that just wouldn’t activate and kept saying fatal error but I soon got it fixed with a new version. You shouldn’t have any problems, I dont think.
True, most of us are on plain old Wordpress
Theres usually a security update in some of the versions and so it might be in your best interest to do so. Plus after a while themes and certain new plugins will only be for a newer edition of wordpress onwards.
if they keep releasing new versions at this rate, that wouldn’t be such a big surprise
Yeah, upgraded as well. Looks pretty cool.
BTW, it’s actually an Australian accent.
British? Sounds South African to me!
The shift click will be useful.
Okay, thanks for your answers. How many blogs do you run? Is there a practical boundry… for example you have to consider using WordPress MU after 12 blogs?
This is good news. Thanks for the update, Shoe.
I just upgraded and lost all of my permalinks. This means that all my posts could not be pulled up.
If the same thing happens to you, try this.
http://www.jaygeiger.com/index.php/2008/07/16/permalinks-fail-in-wordpress-25-and-26/
Hmm. Isn’t revision tracking going to be a little reasource intensive? As someone who sells WordPress installations as a service, I really don’t want my customer’s databases getting huge from tonnes of revisions.
It’s generally not smart to go around telling people you’ve not upgraded yet… That’s basically like saying “oh, by the way, I’m still vunerable to all the security wholes that were fixed in the new release.”
Hardly. We still have to do it via FTP (or through the revision server) manually… Why can’t we get automatic upgrades like we get with plug ins?
Should I update? Yes. There are some major security issues with some of the earlier versions. The automatic update plugin seems to do the job okay.
I think it was overloaded. It worked for me yesterday but still takes a while to load.
Great ! a new wordpress release. Nothing beats a wordpress blog’s seo
This is great news for me. I will install it today.
And I have already done so. -)))))))))))))))
I just updated my wordpress 2.5 blog thanks
Upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 using Fantastico – now can’t login! (It’s a private blog) – what do I do now?
Um… Never use x.x.0 releases?
All the bugs will fix with a fresh install. It seems that the upgrade isn’t doing much. I’ve had several different problems with different blogs.
Anyway, 2.6 is a fix release for the 2.5.x series.
Be careful if you use bbPress as an integrated forum.. it currently does not work out of the box with WP 2.6. I just got burned on that on one of my blogs and had to roll back to a 2.5.1 backup.