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What’s New in WordPress 2.9? Complete Upcoming Features List

by Rajesh Kanuri on December 18, 2009

announcement on New features in wordpress 2.9WordPress 2.9 is about to release this weekend and they have already came up with the release candidate 1. I think now it is the time to review the upcoming features which are newly added in wordpress 2.9. I can’t say that they will come up with the complete bug free but I am sure that the stable version of 2.9 will be error free. I hope that the wordpress codex team won’t do the same mistakes this time just like in case of its 2.8 version.

WordPress 2.9 Features:

New features in wordpress 2.9Trash Status: Trash Status is something which is not available in earlier versions. With this new feature when we delete posts, pages, comments and attachments they will moved the recycle bin which can be restored at an earlier time.

Gallery: With this feature we can “include” and “exclude” galleries at any point of time. They have added new short code for this.

Image Editing: They are coming up with image editing in media library which allows you edit, resize, crop the image at a single click. So we need not worry about the resizing the images before uploading. J

Media Embeds: I think wordpress 2.9 features and additions were inspired from windows live writer, because an option like adding images (e.g. flickr) & videos (e.g. youtube) using URL was added to the feature list. This makes me think and remember about WLW.

Search Engines: They have checked the option “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” by default with the installation.

User Levels Enhanced: XMLRPC support was added for the users who registered for the blog and allows them to post using Offline blog editors like WLW..,

Sticky Posts: They have added support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer, which minimizes manual work after you work on migration of your blog.

Tables: Automatically repairing tables is added which helps you in fixing the database from the admin panel.

File Size Errors: They worked on displaying the correct and appropriate errors for the file size upload errors.

Retire: They have retired Bunny Tags importer and Jerome’s keywords importer.

Updates: They have updated SimplePie which allows in synchronizing the blog updates with the social media websites and have eliminated the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1. They have removed support for making a category its own parent.

To know about the complete list of features check out WordPress 2.9 & Features at WordPress Codex.

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Mia December 18, 2009 at 10:40 am

OMG – U sure work fast Raj ! heheeee gee, Im gonna start calling u the TechSanta ! whatever one asks for : they get it ! :D great , now I have to get to the next article :D

Thank you Raj :-*
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 10:50 am

TechSanta Sounds Cool and I love it.. :D

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Mia December 18, 2009 at 10:44 am

BTW: when I tried RT , it says : URL points to wrong article :-/ hmmm.. u need to check that ( I RT using my own BigTweet ;;) :D

M.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 10:50 am

Oops its my mistake actually the post is scheduled for tomorrow.. but it appeared today., so u faced this problem.. check out now.. it will be working fine now.. :)

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Arafat Hossain Piyada December 18, 2009 at 8:27 pm

I think she retweet after comment as if someone retweet after comment s/he will face the error. By the way great post.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 8:39 pm

That error is when she use the retweet button i am about to schedule that for tomorrow and posted this for today.. and in the mean I again scheduled the post for tomorrow so she might have faced the problem in the mean time.. now it works fine. . Glad that you like the post..

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Mia December 18, 2009 at 10:57 am

There are no problems for this girl : Only solutions ! :D :D I have other weapons of choice when others fail ! heheee – gotcha ! :D
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Tinh December 18, 2009 at 11:41 am

Nice improvement and can not wait for the final release :-)
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Aditya Kane December 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Media Embeds: It is high time WP update were more responsive vis a vis Live Writer.
Trash Bin: This would be really helpful especially for collaborative blogs.

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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 1:25 pm

yeah Even i liked it very well and also the image options were enhanced..

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Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend December 18, 2009 at 12:07 pm

There’s more, there’s better support for documents neither post nor page, something I’ve consider hacking core to get for myself.
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ProVamsi @ India365 December 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm

Very informative dude, Trash and image editing would be really handy features. Especially, I would love to have trash, that would be a great advantage.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 2:19 pm

yeah trash feature come really handy and minimizes the accidental post deletions..

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Minh December 18, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Dude, do you know when will 2.9 be released? :D
I cant wait more :x
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 2:20 pm

As the official annoucement it will by this week end.. At max I am sure that it will released in a weeks time..

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Sushant December 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Everything is great about wordpress, but the image editor speed is killing me. I still think blogger has a better image editor.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Check out the 2.9 it works great with images.. :)

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Free Vector Graphics December 18, 2009 at 3:45 pm

wow.. awesome! eagerly waiting for release. When is it releasing?
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 3:49 pm

This week end..

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Gabe | freebloghelp.com December 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm

I’ve been looking forward to the 2.9 final release for a long time. Even though it was “supposed” to happen in the early Fall, I thought it would actually be pushed into mid-January. Looks like an early Christmas present from WP.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 8:39 pm

yeah it is a damn good gift for this Christmas from WP

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Pubudu Kodikara December 18, 2009 at 10:36 pm

its getting more and more interesting….. man, i can’t wait!
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Rajesh Kanuri December 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm

a week’s wait is left…

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Tech Maish@Blogging Tips December 18, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Search Engine and Sticky Post problem is a common problem and it is good to see that wordpress is going to solve these issues.
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Loveish December 19, 2009 at 1:14 am

Its a nice new year gift for bloggers from wordpress. I like media updates, image editing and trash from these updates. I think wordpress should add trash option long ago. Its a necessary option bcoz accidental deletion can cause the lost of some important data. But its better late than never.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 19, 2009 at 11:31 am

yeah the features were awesome..

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Ramkumar December 19, 2009 at 8:58 am

Trash and the image editing is really very cool features. Waiting to try it.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 19, 2009 at 11:30 am

wordpress 2.9 released download it dude.. :)

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Gurpreet Singh December 19, 2009 at 9:27 am

Hi Rajesh u R incredible man U r work is awesome U hit the web with fastest news. As i was not aware of working with WordPress So will u help me to know more about this and installation of wordpress blogs.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm

For sure dude.. you can ping me at any time for any kind of help. will be happy to help you.. :)

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Technics Today December 19, 2009 at 11:29 am

Upgraded to latest. :)
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Rajesh Kanuri December 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm

It is always a safe practice to keep updated and it is recommended..

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Sniff India December 19, 2009 at 2:18 pm

its quite a long list of features in the new version, a good update from wordpress. i like the thrash option, we surely need a recycle bin as so much goes on and sometimes some stuffs gets deleted by mistakes too, so its good to have an option to get it back :)
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Rajesh Kanuri December 19, 2009 at 4:24 pm

yeah this is an unique option to have that in .. It helps a lot

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Dana @ Online Knowledge December 19, 2009 at 5:07 pm

I already see wordpress 2.9 update in my dashboard but i will wait some others review to upgrade my blog version to it. I may try it in my blog lab, but surely not in my prime blog.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 20, 2009 at 1:52 pm

yeah i have found a bug and found the solution.. but that is the permanent one..

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hoodia gordonii December 19, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Hello
Its interesting to know wordpress 2.9 features.This seems very good and I like it.Specially I like those Trash status,Search engines and image editing features.Thank you very much for giving such update.You have done a good job.

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Rajesh Kanuri December 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm

They have a lot of new features.. the trash and image editing were really great features

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Sushant December 19, 2009 at 10:11 pm

Oh man I just upgraded to wordpress 2.9 and my tweet button just disappeared. Hey Rajesh have any suggestions for this problem.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 20, 2009 at 1:27 pm

They have released an upgrade for tweet button.. hope that it works fine for u.. let me if u have any other problems..

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Loveish December 20, 2009 at 1:54 pm

I m not able to login to my wordpress admin panel after upgrading to latest version :(
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Rajesh Kanuri December 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm

What is the problem dude.. will help u if i can..

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Loveish December 20, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Don’t know whts the problem :(
even new password is not working. do u hv any idea wht to do nw
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Rajesh Kanuri December 21, 2009 at 10:36 pm

I m sorry for the late reply once try forget password may be while upgrading the password was resetted.. i have read about this once.. hope this helps u…

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Loveish December 22, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Its okay bro no need to say sorry. I tried forget password, and got new password, but its not working and now I m getting the message of Wrong Username. so now i don’t know wht to do. How can i register a new user without logging in to wordpress. I think i have to reinstall the wordpress and that will cause the lost data on site. I m so tensed bcoz of it. If you have any solution kindly tell me at my email id loveishs@gmail.com
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Rajesh Kanuri December 24, 2009 at 6:45 pm

add me @ rajkanuri in google will check out the issue…

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Blog4Boys December 20, 2009 at 4:43 pm

nice review.. i will check those
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TechChunks December 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm

Great post. However, any idea about the security holes that this latest WP version is aimed at patching?
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Rajesh Kanuri December 21, 2009 at 10:30 pm

heard that 2.9.1 is all set to release this weekend to solve the security breaches and bugs raised…

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Pavan Somu December 22, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Nice improvement from wordpress.
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Rajesh Kanuri December 24, 2009 at 6:45 pm

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