WordPress 2.6 is now available.  I updated my site with it last night and have spent the morning exploring the new features so I could give a report.  I’ve found quite a few things that I think make it worth the upgrade.

If you use lots of images in your posts, you’ll love how 2.6 handles images.  The upload interface looks the same as 2.5.1, but now you can add captions to your images that actually show up under your image in the post.  Image alignment features are also much more robust with the new release.

Another feature I love is the Press This bookmark you can add to your bookmark toolbar that allows you to pull online content from any page you’re surfing and immediately insert it into a new post.  Just hit Press This while viewing the page you’d like to link to (or include content from, i.e. YouTube, etc.), and WordPress’ Write Post page pops up in a new window, with the link ready to go in your post body.  After that, just blog and publish!

To check out more of WP 2.6’s features, check out this link: WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6.

And if you’d like to upgrade but you’re not sure how or the idea of doing it yourself makes you nervous, contact me about my upgrade service!

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