I’ve read again my Google Reader because I want to be updated with the news around the world. Especially WordPress, G4Tech and NBA. As I’ve read my subscriptions, I’ve found out that there’s this feature proposal for the upcoming WordPress 2.7. Time files very fast. WordPress 2.6 has been release for sometime now and they would like to focus on WordPress 2.7 right now.
Here are some of the features proposed for WordPress 2.7
- Comments API
- Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
- Remove old/unused code
- Theme update API, like we do for plugins
- Some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
- Dashboard and write box rearranging
- One-click plugin installs
- oEmbed suppport, tied in the shortcodes
- Admin-only reply thing, for admin replies to comments (7435)
- Better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
- Core updating
- 0Auth support
- A frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
- GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
- Duplicate post tags UI for other taxonomies (6387)
- SWFUploader make it work with Flash 10
- Template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
- Plugin browser embedded
- Codepress code highlighting for template editing
- PHP XREF hosted on WordPress.org
- Tag intersections, all post that have tag x AND y (We already do this)
- Menu editor
- Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (7151)
- Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags (6297)
- Sitemaps by default
- Comment threading
- Batch editing of posts
- Refresh of the importers
- Subscribe To Comments plugin in core?
- MPIT for hierarchies
- Gallery post_type
- Versioning of template edits
- Documentation links for functions used in currently edited template
I know these are a lot of WordPress features demand but it would be better to implement those what is very, very important than those addressed to be a new feature but less important. Credits goes to WordPress Codex site and Hack WordPress for the article.
