WordPress2.6 was released today, a month of ahead schedule…  yes, you read that correctly, a month ahead.  And, by the time I finish writing this, more than 60,000 copies will have already been downloaded.  Along with significantly new feature upgrades from 2.5, this upgrade comes with 194 bug fixes.

Yes, its time to upgrade.

Couple of important new features that we like out of version 2.6:

• You can now track changes made to your Posts or Pages
• Publish anything from the web to your corporate blog

Here’s WordPress.org’s fancy video tour of the latest features in 2.6:

Tracking Changes to Posts & Pages

WordPress has moved very quickly over the past two years from a blog publishing platform to a full fledge Content Management System.  It’s done such a good job, at the beginning of this year, all new websites IGT creates are based on WordPress or Drupal frameworks.   Goodbye static websites, goodbye brochureware websites, goodbye kludgy simple CMSes.

WordPress has moved to create multi-user environment that is easy to manage, create content, and publish it.   The entire platform is standards compliant and search engine optimizaton friendly and best of all, free.

With this new change tracker technology, we expect to give even our Drupal interested clients something to reconsider.

Publish anything from the web on your blog

Ever been browsing the web, saw a picture, video, or story and thought “I should blog about this.”  But, the world being hectic and all, you don’t have the time for that.  You’d have to get back to your blog, find the original article, fiddle with ways to embed it…it’s like the bad side of an infomercial.  

Enter Wordpress 2.6 

2.6 now includes (or reintroduces, depending on your point of view) Press This!, a bookmarklet that allows you to blog while you cruise.  You see a photo on Flickr and are inspired to blog about it?  Push the Press This! bookmark on your toolbar and it will bring up a pop-up with the picture already embedded.  See a video that moves you on YouTube?  Same thing.

This feature could make blogging as easy as bookmarking.  It can increase the frequency of blog post and even change the style of your blog.  You can easily add interesting pages, videos, images, etc as you find them on the web.

These are only two of the new features…the full feature set along with significant security enhancements and bug fixes should convince anyone to upgrade to 2.6

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