WordPress 2.8 Baker is out

Over the many passing years, WordPress has shown considerable improvement in performance, interface, effectiveness and usability. The latest version, Wordpress 2.8 code named Baker is another firm step in that direction. Named after famous vocalist Chet Baker, this 2.8 version has more than 750 bug fixes and majority of crashes fixed that were reported in the earlier version.

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New features of WordPress 2.8

The main features that have been introduced in WordPress 2.8 are as follows:

Theme Browser

Users can now browse, install and update themes easily by managing the entire process through the dashboard. CodePress Editor highlights the syntax that allows to manage the tweaks or edits more effectively as you can easily identify the functions that are being used.

Redesigned Widget Interface

The widget interface in WordPress 2.8 is very flexible and allows to edit widgets on the run. You can also easily move the widgets between sidebars along with creating duplicate copies of the same widget.

New Widget API

Since WordPress publishing platform is open source, the new widget API is a great extension to already provided software development kit. It is bound to make creating widgets more easier.

Advanced options

WordPress earlier allowed users to just change the arrangement of the widgets on admin dashboard. But WordPress 2.8 lets users to change the number of columns of widgets to be displayed which for now can be customized till 4 and also the number of items per page can be manipulated.

Configurable management

Every information displayed on the custom pages is not of use to everyone. WordPress 2.8 handles this concern by allowing users to decide on which information needs to displayed and what remains hidden.

WordPress 2.8 is undoubtedly faster than all the earlier versions due to change in the coding of styling and scripting. This is of course not the complete list, to have a look at all the features that have been added in WordPress 2.8 Baker, visit Codex. There is a major improvement in speed, APIs are more clean and helpful, and widget customization is more user friendly. You can download this new version from WordPress official site.