Finally there is a new release of Wordpress. The Wordpress 2.8 has been officially released. Phew!

Word press 2.7 and its versions were seriously giving many issues to the users, in particular, the slow speed issue. Since the upgrade to Word press 2.7, the blogs running on this version slowed down like anything, thus giving a setback to my webmasters and their businesses. Although many tickets were raised, yet the issue of slow speed still persisted in 2.7

With the official launch of Wordpress 2.8, we expect that this major issue has been resolved. Thats what is claimed by the team on their website. They claim to have fixed 790 bugs! Wow, thats huge list. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist “Chet Baker”. The following improvements have been mentioned on wordpress.org:

“First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.

Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.”

Hopefully, this version of wordpress gives the unlimited exprience of blogging! Please comment on the new wordpress 2.8!