WordPress 2.6 Released Officially
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WordPress 2.6 has been officially released today. Matt surprised many of us by releasing WordPress 2.6 almost a month ahead of schedule.
There are several new features in WordPress 2.6, few of which we had covered earlier. The WordPress team have also created a video that demonstrates the new features bundled with WordPress 2.6.
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Wow. When are people going to upgrade though? I mean, are they going to upgrade or stick with 2.5?
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Muhammad Siyab (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 12:28 amI just downloaded and installed it… I LOVE the ordering of the gallery and the caption. GREATEST program ever
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 1:18 amNice and quick! I would like to see the old Widget system back
The new one for me is very buggy and text widgets still dont save. If not the old system maybe a new version again.
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Lee Doyle (5 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 1:31 amLooks like there is some sort of login issue with FireFox 3.0.1 and WordPres 2.6 WP-Admin login screen. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/188870 Using an older version of FireFox or IE is good for a work around.
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Jeff Chandler (230 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 1:42 amSigh, unfortunately the new version has not fixed the issue with large image uploads with the flash uploader in my case (although thank you for including the non-flash one, very much!)
However, I really loved using the wordpress stats plugin. I deactivated the plugin before upgrading from 2.5.1 and then did the install, then reactivated…now all my stats are missing!!
I had quite the listing, starting from january when i installed it. What did I do that accidentally deleted all my blog stats? I thought that was stored on the wordpress.com server anyway…
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Zach (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 1:47 am[...] WordPress 2.6 Released Officially [...]
Wordpress 2.6 is out. Should you upgrade. Yes! | My Blog Posts — 07/15/2008 @ 2:05 amI am planning to upgrade this weekend. Thanks for all the hardwork
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CodeCritic (4 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:09 am@ Jeff…
I’m having no problems with FF 3.0.1
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:17 amVery promising, and speedup is exellent - I’m just hoping they can fix permalink system quickly, right now it is not working
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Dr T (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:18 am[...] weblogtoolscollection.com Si te gustó esta noticia compártela These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers [...]
Wordpress 2.6 is Out | MadBoxpc.com - Geeks por defecto — 07/15/2008 @ 2:21 amJust upgraded, I love the gravatar support and theme previews! Oh, and not to mention the Gears feature. Now I only hope WP stays compact and not get overbloated by features in the future.
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Damjan Mozeti? (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:23 amBrilliant. I can’t wait to start playing around with this baby - its time to put on the kettle and get out the coffee beans. Its going to be a late couple of nights
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Dan Milward (5 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:24 am[...] http://wordpress.org/developme.....-26-tyner/ http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....fficially/ [...]
WordPress 2.6 released | Instinct Entertainment — 07/15/2008 @ 2:26 amWoohoo nice and early. was released just before I was about to go to sleep
going to wait a bit and see the reactions to any bugs before I take the plunge
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dan (4 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:42 amQuestion… is it just me… but some reason images I upload are going to the default wp-content/uploads folder instead of the “images” folder that I declared.
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 2:48 am[...] neue Version ist da und wer sich interessiert, was denn da überhaupt neu ist, dem empfehle ich dieses Video hier. Und kaum ist es nun da, da geht es wohl einigen Leuten so, wie mir damals, man ärgert sich [...]
Wordpress 2.6 released « Data Travelers-Blog — 07/15/2008 @ 3:05 amLet me know, If any blogger on NearlyFreeSpeech has upgraded, coz. NFS sometimes gives strange issues….
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Anshul (2 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 3:24 amwhoa! the new version give a huge push forward …
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digitaljail (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 3:36 amTrey Cruz,
I too am getting a link to the wp-content/uploads when I upload an image. However the file is physically located in the folder I specified, which in this case is in media. Looks like WordPress left out something.
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Darran (4 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 4:00 am[...] Weblog Tools Collection > WordPress 2.6 Released Officially [...]
Weblog Tools Collection > WordPress 2.6 Released Officially | Marco's Weblog — 07/15/2008 @ 4:15 am@Trey Cruz:
change the default location to image folder
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lol — 07/15/2008 @ 4:19 ambuilt-in image captions
dick = hard
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Catsandbeer.com (4 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 4:21 am[...] and this is only horrible rumour at this stage - the medium-vaunted login system isn’t doing for Firefox [...]
CodeScheme » WordPress 2.6 — 07/15/2008 @ 4:36 amBlogged about it too and also upgraded
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Chetan (13 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 4:37 amThere still appears to be a problem when switching themes.
Try as I might, I can only ever see the previews. Can’t activate the themes themselves.
Maybe someone here can figure this one out.
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Piggy and Tazzy (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 4:48 amJust updated to 2.6, I found particularly interesting the Live Theme Preview
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Kabatology (3 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 6:22 amI am updating my wordpress right away. Interested and keen to seen new changes
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Nihar (2 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 7:05 am@Kabatology,
Am not surprised with the live theme preview, as i was expecting that since past few upgrades, i had to use a plugin for that earlier!
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Chetan (13 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 7:06 amHey Keith, what is with your automatic update plugin WPAU? I wrote a tutorial where you can use another plugin to automatically upgrade to WordPress 2.6 in 5 minutes without any problems. Would love to include your plugin as an alternative, but many people are having big problems with it. Are you planning to work on an update for this plugin or you just hope WordPress 2.7 has one included?
Check the tutorial out:
http://afrison.com/how-upgrade-wordpress-26/670/
Have fun and good luck with the upgrade!
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Not A Niche (3 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 7:11 am[...] info här och här… om vad som är nytt i Wordpress [...]
Wordpress 2.6 | Prylogi.se — 07/15/2008 @ 8:22 amDumb question, but does anyone know what program the WP team used to create their video. I loved the effects.
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BJohnM (4 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 9:40 am[...] the blog to Wordpress 2.6, which is out a month early. Mostly administrative improvements, but I like the changes they’ve done, which you can watch a demonstration of via Youtube [...]
» Apologies for the interruption in service. Scott’s DiaTribes: My personal opinions on social and political issues from a progressive standpoint. — 07/15/2008 @ 9:48 am@BJohnM: It’ll probably be iMovie or similar on the Mac
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Barry (12 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 10:25 am[...] It’s only been a few month since the release of 2.5 but the bigger, better WordPress 2.6 is now out and Tyner is ready for your download or upgrade almost a month ahead of schedule. [...]
WordPress 2.6 Available Now » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 — 07/15/2008 @ 10:28 amI just upgraded my WP 2.5 blog to 2.6 without any problem using the excellent InstantUpgrade plug-in — thanks for releasing WordPress 2.6 so fast!
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Claude Gelinas (17 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 11:41 am@19
Thanks for the note… I’m still having the dang problem
@21
If you read it correctly, it states that I already declared it.
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 11:57 am[...] WordPress 2.6 Released ????? release, ???? movie [...]
I’m CaLendarW Blog » Blog Archive » Today Finding — 07/15/2008 @ 12:07 pm[...] Comment Print this post Email this post Wordpress 2.6 has been released today, nearly a month early. Not bad. I’ve never seen such support for a free platform before. Have a few minutes to [...]
Wordpress 2.6 Released | StartBlogging.net — 07/15/2008 @ 12:10 pmThe image uploader will not work properly after I upgraded. All I get when I upload the pictures is the title,no thumbs, and when I try to insert all I get is an empty square. I have tested it om three different blogs I use.The pictures I uploaded before the upgrade works just fine.
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Tor Amundsen (2 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 12:23 pmThere’s a workaround to the image upload problem.
Instead of just “images” I typed in the full URL path to the images folder and it worked just fine.
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 12:45 pmCLARIFICATION:
In the “optional” full path text box, that’s where you should be typing the path to the images folder
In my case it would be
1st textbox: images
2nd textbox: http://treycruz.com/images
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 1:54 pmThank you. It worked. But is this something that will be fixed?
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Tor Amundsen (2 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 3:16 pm@Tor Amundsen
I believe it’s already been noted and in the next upgrade release there should be a fix by then.
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Trey Cruz (14 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 3:37 pm[...] WordPress 2.6 was released yesterday and most of the blogosphere, twitterosphere started shouting about it and rejoiced the moment when the best and our favorite blogging engine got some huge updates and useful ones too! I immediately shifted from Chyrp to WordPress 2.6 for my personal profile i.e. Mayank. [...]
Best Tumblelog themes to be used with WordPress 2.6! | StudioWordpress — 07/15/2008 @ 4:40 pmThe Easter Egg in the release candidates exists in the final version. When you are editing a post, view the posts revisions and try to compare the same revision to itself watch what happens.
you can see it here: http://awaitinginspiration.com.....aster-egg/
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Adam (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 5:05 pmAWESOME! just upgrade to 2.6 yet to test out the new features.
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julian (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 6:43 pm[...] I stumbled upon a fix where you need to fill in the optional full path text box with the full URL of your folder [...]
WordPress 2.6 Tyner Is Out | LimeTouch — 07/15/2008 @ 7:17 pmI want to upgrade but I’m worried about my most trusted plugins not working (if ever)…hmmnn..
Oh what the heck, I’ll just go with the flow and upgrade today!
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Arthur (3 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 8:39 pmAll praise 2.6.
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Arian Xhezairi (8 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 9:57 pmNothing here worth the headache of upgrading , guess I’ll wait for 2.7
I liked 2.3 and 2.5 . The smart people who make the plug-ins cover any gaps …if it ain’t broke , don’t fix it.
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Ron Annand (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 10:07 pmI particurly like the photo caption. it would look nice in my posts.
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Arthur (3 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 10:21 pmRan into a problem using Seamonkey (yeah, that means me and 3 other people had this problem), where after upgrading, I was unable to log into dashboard. Kept getting the message my password was wrong.
Finally deleted my cookies for my site and was able to log in.
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Machiavelli (1 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 11:14 pmOkay, one thing…in the post itself, the picture/caption are in a neat little box, with the caption centered underneath…but not showing like that on the page. What is the fix for that, or where is it stored so I can tinker?
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TheTick (13 comments.) — 07/15/2008 @ 11:22 pm[...] Wordpress 2.6 just came out not long ago. Now, many people may be wondering whether or not to upgrade as upgrading can be very troublesome. Personally, I did an upgrade just now and did not encounter any problem be it plugin or WP bugs. [...]
Should you upgrade to WP 2.6? | ???? — 07/16/2008 @ 2:05 amI was a little frightened at first to do the upgrade as it would be the first time for my blog to get one. I was hoping it could be done like many of the plugins, automatically. It wasn’t though and I had to do it manually. It worked out pretty darn good though and I haven’t experienced any problems. I’m using a bunch of plugins and FF 3.0.
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draftbetter (2 comments.) — 07/16/2008 @ 2:27 amI figured it out, current themes (of course) don’t have any caption stuff in the CSS. You can grab the relevant bits out of the default theme if you like that look (and I do).
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TheTick (13 comments.) — 07/16/2008 @ 9:44 amUpgraded last night - my first time to jump on the bandwagon so soon. I had a crash, but was able to fix it fairly quickly. Now to get familiar with the changes before updating client sites.
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Katie Baird (1 comments.) — 07/16/2008 @ 10:50 amWarning to those who are always after the “latest and greatest”: After upgrading from 2.5, I couldn’t log in to wp-admin anymore, so I went back to 2.5. Until this bug is fixed, I’m not upgrading. This is a pain in the….
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dvopilgrim — 07/16/2008 @ 9:08 pmDefinitely I will be busy this weekend, automatic upgrade don’t work for me, it was always hang uploading the files, and also deactivating and reactivating all the plugins is also quite tedious, hopefully this will be solved in the next release.
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pinoyconsole (1 comments.) — 07/17/2008 @ 1:53 amSeems like 2.6 has broken my images
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Neil (29 comments.) — 07/17/2008 @ 4:43 am[...] via Weblog Tools Collection [...]
WordPress 2.6 Released | Danny Thorpe — 07/17/2008 @ 11:38 amI’m experiencing the same problems as a few other users: I can’t get into the admin section on some of my sites. Of the few that I can access, I had to go through repeated sessions of closing my browser and clearing my cache to be able to get into the admin. I’ve been trying it with three different browsers.
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gestroud — 07/17/2008 @ 10:56 pm[...] - note the comment from weneedmoney just above my comment - they can’t log in to their blog. WordPress 2.6 Released Officially - note comments 58 and 62, who also had the same issue. Read this before upgrading to Wordpress 2.6 [...]
Wordpress 2.6 Warning - DO NOT upgrade. | Snoskred - Life in the Country — 07/18/2008 @ 9:32 pm[...] WordPress 2.6 Released Officially - From Weblog Tools Collection, this is more for the discussion that’s there [...]
Where did WordPress go wrong? | Sephy's Platzish — 07/20/2008 @ 1:50 am[...] regard to the worthwhileness of making the upgrade, there is commentary on the subject here. The chatter about the newly released version mostly consists of positive feedback in terms of [...]
Serving Southwest Florida Web Development » Blog Archive » Upgrading from WordPress 2.5.1 to 2.6 — 07/20/2008 @ 1:48 pmSome lovely new features, but I can’t access admin sections of my site anymore. Back to 2.5.1 for me, I’m afraid.
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6000 (2 comments.) — 07/20/2008 @ 4:05 pm@Zach (#5): Your stats are not missing. Go to your stats screen (not within the dashboard, put the actual page itself). Log in, if it’s not already logged in. At the top you have “Random hot post”. Below, there’s the URL of your blog and the button “Switch”.
My old stats were accumulated at basbasbas.com/blog, but after the switch I thought I lost all my stats, yet I was wrong… It started accumulating them as http://www.basbasbas.com/blog
So I can still access the old stats through there (without the www) and the new ones with the http://www. Not the way I want it, but nothing’s lost. Now to find a way to fix it.
Anyone found a working solution yet?
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Bas (2 comments.) — 07/22/2008 @ 4:14 pm@Bas:
That can likely be fixed by ensuring that visitors only see one version of the site.. either with www all the time or without. Use an .htaccess file in your Wordpress main folder for this.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/1 [R=301,L]
That will force visitors who go to domain.com to see http://www.domain.com
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dan (4 comments.) — 07/22/2008 @ 8:16 pmThat doesn’t explain why I’m getting 0 visitors on basbasbas.com (without www) and all of the traffic being on the www version, though.
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Bas (2 comments.) — 07/23/2008 @ 8:20 amCouldn’t tell you why thats happening in the first place but the .htaccess fix I posted will make sure it doesn’t happen anymore
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dan (4 comments.) — 07/23/2008 @ 9:52 amI upgraded to 233 and could not get my password to work. I decided to upgrade to 2.6 and now I have no blog. I get a http 500 page cannot be displayed. What’s the problem here?
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Sam II (1 comments.) — 07/24/2008 @ 8:20 pmI got little trouble after upgrade to wp 2.6 on login. But, after clear my cookies… it can solve the problem.
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harish (1 comments.) — 08/13/2008 @ 9:57 pmI tried to upgrade using the automatic upgrade plugin. It says it did a preliminary check and fown that I was up-to-date .. 2.3
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PapaDilbert — 09/19/2008 @ 10:03 pm