WordPress 2.8 – What Can We Expect?

Written by Steven on April 18, 2009

Let’s talk about WordPress 2.8, shall we? The new version is planned to released somewhere this month (and April is almost over!) and the bug hunt will start pretty soon. Time to see what’s coming.

Save a Draft with a Keyboard combo

One of the things I already like from the 2.8 admin interface is the new “save a draft” feature. You can, when you are editing a draft, save that draft directly from within your keyboard. Just hit Ctrl + S (or Command + S if you are on a Mac) and you have saved your draft.

Improved Widget User Interface + API

The new feature I am waiting for is the updated Widget API. Finally, the 2.8 version of WordPress includes some heavy updates. The User Interface is much improved and you can use multiple widgets. In the past, you could only use 1 “search” widget (for example), but with the new API, you can use 100 if you would prefer that.

The greatest thing that many plugin/widget developers are waiting for is the improved Widget API. The new API uses a much better structure and made it even possible for me to build some widgets!

New Template Tag: the_modified_author

If you would insert this new template tag in your theme, you would see who have edited the post. Not a real necessary new tag for me but I can see the advantages for others.

Body_class

In the past, we had to use a hack to give your <body> tag a class depending on the page your visitor is located. This is going to be a lot easier with this new feature body_class. Check out this excellent explanation of the body_class over at WP Engineer.

In my opinion these new features are the most important in the new 2.8 release. What do you think? Which feature do you think is the most important new thing in this release? Comment!

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This article is written by:

Name: Steven

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2 Responses

  1. WordPress Articles for 19/04/09 | WPStart.org - WordPress themes, plugins and news says:
    April 19, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    [...] WordPress 2.8 – What Can We Expect? [...]

  2. George Serradinho says:
    May 13, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Hi, i also can’t wait for WP 2.8. I think the new widget API will be a bonus for us users. I’m sure I would use that a lot on my site.

    Thanks for sharing this info :)