So the new version of wordpress is out, and are you upgrading to it? I had told this before about the release in the end of 1st or 2nd week and they have done it.
What’s tyner?
It’s just a name included by Matt after a jazz pianist McCoy Tyner!
WordPress 2.6 has become a better platform with this update and you should surely upgrade to it from your previous versions.
Track every change you made to a post.
Post from anywhere on the web.
Here are a brief changes that you can see -
Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web – Like from a youtube page, from flickr photo page etc.
Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging – Gears browser extension by Google for any browser like Opera, firefox etc.
Theme Previews: See it before your audience does – One of those which i was doing through a plugin, now comes integrated with the platform.
Other -
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your
wp-configfile andwp-contentdirectories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts. - Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
How do i upgrade to wordpress 2.6?
Here is a complete guide on how to upgrade to new version of wordpress in a well explained manner.
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Upgrade now!

Sounds to be some awesome updates by wordpress.. . . have to try it out for myself
Will upgrade my server to this latst stable version, because that way we can upgrade from fantistico!
I’ll pass it off for the first week…
I’ll wait for a week and see if any problem arise, and then upgrade.In the mean while i’ll try it in my localhost.
I love the worcdcount feature. I will just update if the update is already available in my hostgator fantastico.
Hostgator will offer it when 2.7 will come :p they are always late
I’ve planned upgrade 2 hours later. Will have to backup first and display update message.
Oh joy yet another update getting fed up of them now.
i already have update it.
I have upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and it is great. However I have noticed the formating doesn’t work well. Especially with .