Wordpress 2.6 beta 1 released

The first beta of Wordpress 2.6 is out now. It comes with some new interesting features.

Post revision
This is a great feature for when you run a blog/magazine with multiple authors. I believe this will be one of the main features that will let smaller magazines/papers run a site with ease. It’s been one of the features I have missed. Read more about post revisioning.

Caching with Google Gears
Google Gears is a browser add-on that enables WordPress feel alike word processor application like Microsoft Office Word or Open Office. This is another feature that might have a big impact on the uses of WordPress and the type of users that find WordPress useful.

I’ve heard requests/wishes that there was more web applications that worked similar as a word processor. This might be what they have been looking for. Time will tell. Read more about Google Gears for Wordpress.

Theme previewing
This feature I have waited for since I first tried out WordPress and it’s finally here! Not much to say about it really, as long as it works :)

You can read the complete feature list here.

All these features sounds very good but only issue I really have with WordPress is the Media Library. WordPress completely suck at managing uploads; especially images, creating thumbnails, cropping and/or resizing images. Unfortunately there aren’t any good plugins for upload management either.

I want more control over how to handle stylesheet and html codes in posts, most of the classes and IDs are hardcoded. It’s a pain when you just want it to be used a little differently and you end up writing your own tags just to make a small change.

This is after all a beta but it do look promising :)