Web Talk

Some days ago  a new version of Wordpress (version 2.9), the most famous CMS blogging platform, was released in the wild.  This new release codenamed “Carmen” in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, features some interesting stuff, above all as far as multimedia  is concerned!

1. Trash feature. Wordpress 2.9 lets you manage a handy trash bin! (yes, like the one in your Windows OS!). This means that if you delete something (comments, posts, pages etc.) and later on you change your mind, you can dig in your trash bin and bring whatever you want back.
2. Image editor. Crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your image directly from within Wordpress!
3. Batch plugin update. Update your plugins all at once, find out if your plugins are compatible with latest Wordpress releases.
4. Video embedding option. Copy and paste a video link and let Wordpress turns it to the proper embed code. Support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.
5. Wordpress now support rel=”canonical” for better SEO.
6. Automatic database optimization support to optimize your database within Wordpress.
7. Upgraded TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing.
8. etc. ( See this article for a complete list of improvments.)