Is there anything more interesting than reading changelog of the latest wordpress update? I guess the answer would be NO to wordpress fans. Wordpress just released its latest wordpress 2.9 update, which resolved more than 500 tickets and bugs.

So let’s have a look at its core updates

- “Undo” feature

No more hit the wall with you head when you accidentally deleted your work (even though wordpress would ask “are you sure?!” in previous versions). All the stuff you delete will go into “trash”, you can get any of them back whenever you want.

- Built-in Image Editor

This is really powerful and surprising, it does allow you to crop, rotate, flip and scale your photos, quite basic and yet very handy. Now, you don’t really have to open your photoshop again unless you are going to design some fancy looking graphs.

and then

- Multi plugins update and compatibility check

Basically means you don’t have to keep clicking when there are many updates available, they can be done at once. Also, new wordpress 2.9 will give you better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new version or not, thereby you can make your decision wisely.

Tools->Upgrade

- Easier Video Embeds

You don’t need any code surrounding the video URL, just put URL in one line (nothing else in this line), only support for Youtube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, Polldaddy and wordpress.tv (likely to realse in wordpress 3.0).

Some other interesting changes.

- You can now use rel=canonical tag in default wordpress rather than install SEO plugins. It can prevent duplicated content issue, which is very critical to SEO.

- When you are editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to that line after you save.

More information about changelogs can be found on wordpress blog.

Personally I find out new Image Editor will be really handy, you don’t have to have photoshop on while you are writing your post, it really reduces a lot of memory usages. Rel=canonical will be extremely important for those who don’t understand SEO quite well and haven’t yet installed any SEO plugins, less chances for them to be punished by Google. For the trash function, it’s OK, but to be honest, I don’t think people will be silly enough to delete their work *accidentally* after seeing “Are you sure?” warning from Wordpress.

What do you think of wordpress 2.9 update? Share your thoughts here.

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