Just a few days before we officially relaunched LinuxForUcom, which is powered by WordPress 2.7.1, Matt Mullenweg announced the release of version 2.8-talk about bad timing. "2.8 represents a nice fit and finished release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets,taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs;' Mullenweg announced.

According to the announcement, the new version is much faster than the older releases, in addition to changes in the way WordPress does styling and scripting. "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... We've completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn't have time to do 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;' Mullenweg wrote in his official WordPress.org blog. "Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page ... 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:'

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