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WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is out

June 11th, 2009 Ashutosh Mishra

Wordpress has released version 2.8 of it’s popular blogging software. The latest version, codenamed “Baker” in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, brings about a lot of under-the-hood improvements and impressive new features, like

  • Much faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation
  • Browse and install themes from the dashboard
  • Completely revamped drag-n-drop interface for Widgets
  • Timezone support and automatic daylight savings time adjustment


You can find the complete changelog in the WordPress Codex. All in all, 2.8 looks a lot like 2.7 but is much snappier.

Are we upgrading?

Definitely yes, but not now. The developers usually come up with a minor point upgrade (like 2.8.1) in about a month which contains a bunch of bug fixes and support from all popular plugins. We’re waiting for that.

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets – WordPress Blog

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