WordPress 2.7 Features List Finalized

By Kyle Eslick on September 18th, 2008 | Filed Under Releases
Tag(s): WordPress, WordPress 2.7, WordPress Features

Back on August 1st we talked about what features to expect in WordPress 2.7. Though not much had been finalized at the time, the WordPress team had collected a lot of feedback and had a list of features they were looking into adding to WordPress 2.7.

Well, as always the WordPress team has been hard at work and today I noticed a post over at Ryan Boren’s blog that discusses what features have already been built into WordPress 2.7 (not a complete list, but the highlights):

New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
Reply to comments from the admin
Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
Sticky Posts
Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
Automatic upgrade of WordPress
HTTPOnly auth cookies
New HTTP request API
A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Some of my personal favorite items were bolded by me. Ryan also notes that they are hoping to have theme update, install, and browsing available by the time WordPress 2.7 comes out.

What feature are you most looking forward to?

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1 Rich
Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

“New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.”

Are you talking about like the ‘custom fields’ ‘page template’ boxes? These will be able to be arrainged?

Rich
2 Brian Brandt
Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 2:49 am

Automatic upgrade of WordPress… This is going to be awesome… never gets it done in time before the next is up…

its going to be a great release this time… also with the in-admin plugin viewer…
3 Bob
Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 5:43 am

Those four you’ve highlighted are the exact four things I was hoping for in the next release! Couldn’t care less about the other changes but those were the ones I’ve been watching out for.
4 George Serradinho
Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 6:13 am

Sounds good to me. I would of like to see some kind of database backup within wordpress. I know there are loads of plugins for this but it should of been part of it.
5 Sarah
Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 9:11 am

I wish they would incorporate an option for LDAP authentication. I really need to be able to integrate the login with our organization’s central login credentials. I have a plug in to do this, but I hate relying on it.
6 Michael
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at 1:36 am

I’m really excited for the comment XMLRPC, I don’t mind moderating comments but if I could moderate them from an iPhone app, or a notification app on my desktop would be a lot nicer.
7 Jeremy Buff
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 am

When is this update going to be released?
8 Anthony
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 at 5:48 am

Automatic upgrade would be awesome. Such a pain sometimes via slow FTP