I have yet to update and test the latest incarnation of WordPress but there are some features that look promising.
Post Revisions allow WordPress users to track changes to posts with ease and restore earlier versions. (Mac users — we’ve got Time Machine for WordPress!)
The Press This! bookmarklet has been improved to make blogging about things you’ve read or seen on the web much easier and faster.
In WP2.5 uploading images to your blog was improved immensely. Once uploaded a caption could be added for each image. Unfortunately these captions would not be shown in your posts without editing the theme template files. However, with 2.6 installed your Captions will be added under your images automatically.
Still on the subject of images, it is now possible to change the order of Gallery images using ‘drag and drop’. Sweet!
Watch the following introduction of Wordpress 2.6 for further information:
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The Register reports that O2 Sales Director, Steve Shurrock, followed-up a complaint about yesterday’s O2 website failure by writing an email in he blamed Apple for causing the online fiasco.
Quote from The Register Hardware website:
O2 has blamed Apple for the “disappointing and frustrating experience” many would-be iPhone 3G owners had to put up with when the carrier began taking advance orders for the handset this week.
iPhone 3G to be in ‘very short supply for weeks’ - carrier
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O2 started accepting online orders for the new Apple iPhone at 8am yesterday morning and managed to sell out mid-afternoon despite website failure.
Shortly after Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G during his keynote speech during this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference last month O2 began its advertising. Those who were interested were encouraged to sign up for emailed announcements on how to order the new iPhone.
I was seriously considering getting the iPhone and signed up for further details but it was via Twitter that I discovered that O2 were accepting early orders online yesterday.
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