11th June 2009, the biggest day for wordpress team yet.
Today, Mr. Matthew Mullenweg founding developer of WordPress announced the successful release of the latest and the greatest version of wordpress 2.8 codename “Baker” and named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.
The download is available here.
WordPress 2.8 seems the same as 2.7 visually, but it is out with great new 180 features and fixed over 790 bugs.
One of the major update is now, one can browse all themes from the dashboard itself. The Appearance tab comes with a new “Add New Themes” addon, which allow you to browse all themes availaible on wordpress.org and install directly from wordpress directory.
To add a new theme, all you need to do, is to click on Add New Themes and check mark some of the specifications like “colors, columns, Width, features and subject” and you are done, you will be provided with 100(s) of themes with preview and install feature.
To tweak and edit themes on your own, you will notice the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Moreover, this new version got a completely redisgned widgets interface.
To get your eyes on the complete list of all 180 new features check out WordPress Version 2.8 (180 new features list). Also, here comes an explanatory video, which defines all ups and mods about wordpress 2.8 :
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