WordPress 2.7 proposed new features
Not long after WordPress 2.6 came out, the talk of version 2.7 going public either in late September or early October has surfaced. For bloggers, it can be a challenge to keep up with this pace, and sometimes it just boils down to appreciation of the new features.
Here are the proposed changes for WordPress 2.7 taken from the WP Codex. Of course, we’ll have to wait for the final release to know which among these actually got in, but by just looking at this list, do you think it’s worth the trouble to upgrade? Or rather, what would it take to get you to upgrade your current WordPress installation?
1. Comments API
2. Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
3. Remove old/unused code
4. Theme update api, like we do for plugins
5. Some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
6. Dashboard and write box rearranging
7. One-click plugin installs
8. OEmbed support, tied in with shortcodes
9. Admin-only reply thing, for admin replies to comments (7435)
10. Better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
11. Core updating
12. OAuth support
13. A frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
14. GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
15. Duplicate post Tags UI for other taxonomies (6387)
16. SWFUploader make it work with Flash 10
17. Template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
18. Plugin browser embedded
19. Codepress code highlighting for template editing
20. Php xref hosted on WordPress.org
21. Tag intersections, all posts that have tag x AND y (We already do this)
22. Menu editor
23. Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (7151)
24. Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags
25. Sitemaps by default
26. Comment threading
27. Batch editing of posts
28. Refresh of the importers
29. Subscribe To Comments plugin in core?
30. MPTT for hierarchies
31. Gallery post_type
32. Versioning of template edits
33. Documentation links for functions used in currently edited template
