WordPress 2.8 – Looks Awesome!

June 11th, 2009 | Nuwan Sameera Hettiarachchi | Tags

The new WordPress version 2.8 “Baker” represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements would seem to be the ability to,

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets