31Dez/050
Die 2 ist da!
Die neue WordPress Version ist da. Diesmal springt der Versionszähler von 1.5 auf 2.0 und hat den Namen Duke. Bei Gelegenheit werde ich diesen Blog und andere Projekte auf die aktuelle Version umstellen. Die versprochenen Verbesserungen sehen sehr verheißungsvoll aus. Eine Auflistung und den Download findet man unter: WordPress.org.
Besonders interessant finde ich die folgenden Neuerungen:
- Faster Administration — Call it AJAX, call it DHTML, call it Larry, but we’ve paid close attention to streamlining some of the most common tasks in managing your blog. For example if you’re writing a post and you can add categories on the fly, much like tagging in Flickr. Also instead of having two separate UIs for “simple” and “advanced” posting, we’ve combined them and let you customize the layout of the page on the fly by dragging and dropping the dialogs around. It saves where you put things so when you return it’s just like you left it. When you delete a comment or category it will fade out without a page load.
- Resizable Editing — This is one of my personal favorite features. Ever been writing a post and that textarea seemed a little small? Happens to me all the time, and our new rich text editor includes a feature that lets you resize the editor on-the-fly by clicking on the corner, just like a regular window.
- Post Preview — Another enhancement to the post screen, now when you save a post it shows a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.
- User Roles — We had a ton of feedback on our old numerical user level system. No one was exactly sure what those numbers meant! We’ve distilled the basic functions into a set of roles — such as administrator, editor, contributor — that make it easier to understand what sort of capabilities you’re giving your blog’s users. The new system is completely pluggable too, so plugins can modify roles and create groups that have access to certain things.
Ich bin schon gespannt, wie diese Funktion sich im Alltag bewähren.