Wordpress 2.7 Coming Soon

Another major update is coming for wordpress in form of wordpress 2.7 – Proposed new features look real cool! Check them out below:

iiiiii – Comments API
iiiii – keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
iiii – remove old/unused code
iiii – theme update api, like we do for plugins
iiii – some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
iii – dashboard and write box rearranging
iii – one-click plugin installs
iii – oEmbed support, tied in with shortcodes
iii – admin-only reply thing, for admin replies to comments (7435)
iii – better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
iii – core updating
ii – OAuth support
ii – a frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
ii – GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
ii – Duplicate post Tags UI for other taxonomies (6387)
ii – SWFUploader make it work with Flash 10
ii – template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
ii – plugin browser embedded
ii – codepress code highlighting for template editing
ii – php xref hosted on WordPress.org
ii – tag intersections, all posts that have tag x AND y (We already do this)
ii – menu editor
i – Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (7151)
i – Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags (6297)
i – sitemaps by default
i – comment threading
i – batch editing of posts
i – refresh of the importers
i – Subscribe To Comments plugin in core?
i – MPTT for hierarchies
– gallery post_type
– versioning of template edits
– documentation links for functions used in currently edited template

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