Blogging has provided an well-organized and magnificent tool to publicize info about any company on the net. We have got so many blogging platforms and WordPress is one of them. WordPress has released its new version 2.6. WordPress 2.6 has got a no. of features for content creation and improvements. We will just take a look at the major and minor features of the newer version.Here are the major vital features of WordPress’s newer version:Edit-Tracking: The new edit-tracking system will be reasonably handy for multi-author blogs. It allows you to see the changes made to a post and enable you to see who made what changes to a post and when. It also provides the option to revert back to the older version of a post, in case you make a mistake.Press This: “Press This” is like a bookmark you can add to your toolbar. It offers a quick and smart popup to do postings to your WordPress blog. Suppose you are viewing a Youtube video and finds it relevant for your blog and want to post it on your blog, then what you have to do is to just click “Press this” button. It will involuntarily extract the embedded code and post it on your blog. In the same way you can post to your blog from somewhere on the net.Google Gears Support: The most exciting feature of WordPress version 2.6 is support for Google Gears. Gears is an open source browser extension project provided by Google. You can cache the most vital files of the WordPress management console to your local hard drive, by clicking the “Turbo” button in the upper right-hand corner of the WordPress administrative interface. It will allow the authors to keep blogging even if the network connectivity is temporarily lost.Theme Previews: Theme Preview support permits the admin to preview how their site will look with a new user interface previous to making it live. As soon as you select a theme, it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content. It will be fantastic for just test driving the themes prior to publishing. It will also be helpful for the persons developing a theme and need to test it without allowing anyone to see your ongoing mistakes development.Following are the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:
Apart from these there are a number of small changes and new features. Only time will tell that how much these new features help the bloggers.