What's new in Wordpress 2.8

Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8(Not beta) and found some new cool changes in it so lets have a look what's new.

Better Management for Tags

A new subcategory has been added to Posts "Post Tags", Just like categories now you can edit Tag name, Tag slug and also add description for your tags.

Better Management for Themes

Earlier each theme had to be opened and then Activate it or discard it, The new Wordpress has a of direct Preview and Activation Button. By clicking Activate the theme gets Activated without a preview and also a Delete button is present which deletes the theme.

Plugin Management

The plugins manager is retouched. It now offers views/filters by plugin state, which I’ve found to be very convenient and bit of GUI trimming.

"Add new themes" Button

The new Wordpress considers theme's like Plugins. Just like plugins you can browse the new themes, Install them and upload it rather than doing it via FTP. You can also search for theme using different filters based on colors, columns, width and subject.

Feed links for everything

The new Wordpress had feed's for everything. For example when you open a particular category like "Web 2.0" there is a RSS feed for this Or for a author like "Tom" there is feed for post's by that Author.

Improved Widgets Section

The new widgets section shows all you sidebar(s) in once. You can drag and drop the new widget and change the order also by drag and drop. Unlike earlier Wordpress you don't have to click "Show" for each sidebar separately. As soon as you drop a widget into a sidebar, it will pop down the widget’s properties automatically which can be modified and saved.

Edit Post Comments Individually

While editing a post,One can see the existing comments present there in a seprate box in bottom. You can unapprove, spam, delete, edit, quick edit and reply to the comments right from the post edit screen.

Some Minor Changes

• You don’t get notified of your own comments


• You can autosave posts/pages when pressing Control+S


• Support for more than one gallery on the same page


• You can have multiple instances of a widget now


• WordPress doesn’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam


• You can now edit all the files of a particular plugin


• WordPress now allows case-insensitive logins (username)

SEO for your Wordpress blog(using Plugins)

So when you think about SEO you must be imagining of some coding's in you Wordpress page like adding Meta tags and stuff, But when you have a Wordpress.org blog you can do SEO simply by adding Plugins in your blog and this is very easy. You Just need to install plugins do bit of settings and configurations and its done and you see the next day that your Blog is in search result's of Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing. Isn't it easy.
So here are the plugins available for SEO.

All in one SEO Pack

This is the best and most useful plugin of Wordpress. It's very easy to use. It Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

XML Sitemap Generator

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

WP-SEO Boost(Substitute of All in One SEO)

Get High Rankings In Search Engine And Boost Traffic To Your Wordpress Blog.WP-SEO Boost Plugin Offers Complete And Excellent OnSite SEO Solution For Your Wordpress Blog.It Offers All The Features Of SEO Plugins Available Plus More Useful OnSite SEO Options.It Is Fully Automatic And Also Capable Of Importing All Your Current Settings In All In One SEO Plugin(If You Are Using It).But you need to disable All In One SEO before Enabling WP-SEO Boost.WP-SEO Boost Is Perfect SEO Solution For Your Wordpress Blog.Get The Plugin Activated And Boost The Traffic To Your Blog.

Nofollow Case by Case

The nofollow attribute over the last year or two has had a fairly large impact on the blogosphere. All comments in Wordpress by default are nofollow links. This means that no Page Rank (PR) is being given via the link. This plugin changes that and makes comment links valuable again. There are a number of reasons you would want to give away link juice. It’s often used to attract people and encourage them to comment. It can be very useful for new blogs who need some exposure.

Wordpress 2.8 releasing on 10 June

Yeah, The successor of Wordpress 2.7.1 will be released on 10 June if no bugs are found and its almost conformed as a Post in Wordpress blogs says. Beta version's were out much before.(RC 1 also).
















Here is a screenshot of Wordpress 2.8 dashboard. Click to enlarge.