WordPress 2.8 beta

Ya está disponible la beta 1 de WordPress 2.8 con un montón de novedades.

New Theme Installer routines

Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors

Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors

Use «Custom Header» for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change

Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen

Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen

Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam

Don’t notify post author of own comments

Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab

Make titles into links in Dashboard Right Now module (this was in 2.7.1)

Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows)

Update Blue Admin Color Scheme

Press This improvements UI, quoting fixes, plus ability for Contributors to use Press This

Add column «Rating» in Administration > Links > Edit

Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses

Improved Widget user interface

Allow editing of all plugin files (Ticket 6732)

Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New

Per Page option for plugins

Move «Install a plugin in .zip format» to new Upload tab under Administration > Plugins > Add New

Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts

Fix tags suggest for post quick edit and bulk edit

Permalink editor changes and fix for pages

Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S

Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader

Support more than one gallery on the same page

Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags

Overhaul of LiveJournal importer (also add define WP_IMPORTING)

Import category descriptions for Administration > Tools > Import > WordPress

Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo

Check for new version when visiting Administration > Tools > Upgrade

Fix most popular link category list

Add description field for tags

WAI-ARIA landmark roles to added to WordPress Default theme

«Choose a city in the same timezone as you» for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General

Remove My Hacks option from Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous

Hide email addresses from low privilege users on Administration > Comments

In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message

Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users

Make user_nicenames unique during registration

Add «Send this password to the new user by email» option to Administration > Users > Add New

Don’t set user’s Website url to http:// in Administration > Users > Add New

Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning

Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends

Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

Updated Trac

Development, Themes, Plugins

• Improved database performance
• Drop post_category column from wp_posts table, and link_category column from wp_links schemas
• Fix delete statements to ensure data integrity when innodb and foreign keys are used
• Enforce consistent ID types to allow for foreign keys to be defined between tables
• Add Sticky to list of post states
• Add a filter to the post states list
• Introduction and widespread use of transient and related fiters
• Add filters so AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber IM labels, in user profile, can be changed
• Add hook «after_db_upgrade»
• Add hooks for the Users, Categories, Link Categories, Tags and Comments table columns
• HTTP API updates and fixes
• Add support for blocking all outbound HTTP requests
• Updated List of HTTP status codes (Ticket 9297)
• Use SimplePie for widget and dashboard feeds
• Switch to pomo lib. Support gettext contexts. Deprecate long form functions
• TinyMCE 3.2.3
• Use Jcrop 0.9.8 for cropping
• Update pclzip to 2.8
• Improved performance for script loading
• Improved archive and calendar queries
• Cron spawning improvements
• Timezone enhancements for PHP 5
• Add WP_Widget class and move native widgets into WP_Widget
• Allow other taxonomies (e.g. post categories) to be used with wp_tag_cloud (Changeset 10554)
• Add echo argument to wp_tag_cloud()
• Allow a plugin to control how many posts are displayed on edit pages
• Add «style» and «html» arguments to wp_list_authors (Ticket 4420)
• Add «exclude_tree» argument to wp_list_categories and make exclude behave like exclude_tree when hierarchical is specified–this was actually a 2.7.1 change (Ticket 8614)
• New Template Tag, the_modified_author (Ticket 9154)
• Enhanced support for custom taxonomies
• Put page title before blog name in admin title (Ticket 9028)
• Use https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ for the WordPress.org secret-key service
• Various phpDoc updates
• Refactor filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
• XMLRPC improvements
• Improved mysql2date coding
• Make authentication more pluggable
• Switch to using the ID when calling get_avatar internally to support caching plugins
• Allow plugins to provide a canonical redirect_url even if WordPress does not provide its own
• Drafts have post_date populated now, so look for a zeroed out post_date_gmt to determine non-scheduled nature
• Fixes to query_posts (obey post_type, drop orderby=category, use group by for meta key queries, remove meta_value from selected fields)
• Allow a plugin to filter the classes applied in wp_list_pages()
• Functions (get_adjacent_post_rel_link() and adjacent_post_rel_link()) to display relational links for adjacent posts in the head (Ticket 8703)
• Add the sticky post grey background to the default theme
• Proxy support
• Let a plugin filter the expanded capabilities returned by map_meta_cap
• Allow the update period to be filtered in RSS/RDF feeds
• Store field types in wpdb object
• Add tag description functions tag_description and term_description
• Add page class to get_body_class()
• Deprecate get_catname()
• Use comments_open() and pings_open() in WordPress Default and Classic themes
• Add wp_trim_excerpt() filter
• Consolidate plugin/theme/core upgrade/install functions
• Add page-id-x class to body for pages
• Return empty list in wp_list_bookmarks() if requested bookmark category does not exist
• Allow menu reordering via plugin
• Add hook for updating user profile
• Add redirect argument to wp_loginout
• Add get_the_author_meta() and the_author_meta() functions
• Let plugins use screen layout columns
• Add labels to titles and text inputs
• Add hook for adding info to plugin update message
• Don’t do core version check from front page loads
• Allow a plugin to vary the comment cookie lifetime (or even remove the cookies altogether)
• Allow plugin to replace just the default help while preserving the contextual help
• New escaping naming convention Ticket 9650
• Add number/offset arguments to get_pages() (same parameters can be used for wp_list_pages()
• Make login more pluggable
• Add a function to output a generic widget anywhere in a template
• Allow plugins to override tz support enable/disable

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