{"id":772,"date":"2009-06-07T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T08:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-06-11T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:34:02","slug":"wordpress-28-ready-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2009\/wordpress-28-ready-to-be-released.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.8 Ready to Be Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of hype has been surrounding the released date of the latest version of WordPress (the popular blog authoring tool) next week &#8211; on 10th June 2009 (though not officially confirmed). After testing out its Beta 1 and Beta 2, WordPress 2.8 is in fact better than 2.7.1 in terms of its functionality and user interface. Packed with various AJAX-enhanced tools, you don&#8217;t really need a third-party tool to manage your blog. Can&#8217;t wait for its release and I&#8217;ll be upgrading this blog once it&#8217;s out!<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress 2.8 Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Theme Browser and Installer<\/li>\n<li>Ability to add Custom Headers<\/li>\n<li>New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API<\/li>\n<li>New ways to customize dashboard widgets<\/li>\n<li>Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors.<\/li>\n<li>Configurable Views on Management Pages.<\/li>\n<li>Faster Loading Admin Pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\" style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<h3>More info <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogtoolscollection.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/03\/wordpress-28-beta-hands-on-review\/\">here. <\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>UPDATE: WordPress 2.8 is now available for downloads. Check out<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org \" target=\"_blank\"> www.wordpress.org <\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\" style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of hype has been surrounding the released date of the latest version of WordPress (the popular blog authoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,197],"tags":[24,348,350,349,178,2132,347],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-web","category-wordpress","tag-blog","tag-blog-tools","tag-development","tag-scripts","tag-web","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-28"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}