Turbocharged

Curious about what’s going in the next version of WordPress? You could wade their Trac online coordination system. But I’ve attempted to summarize the highlights in the next version of WordPress before it gets released.

The WordPress team has been hard at work, squashing bugs and introducing new and optimized code in the as-yet-unreleased next version of WordPress. Let’s discuss some of what’s going to be in the next version:

1. Category listing speedups. For an example, see #3985
2. New hooks. For example, it’s possible for themes to add more XHTML namespaces now.
3. Style optimizations. See #4068.
4. Right-to-left fixes all over the place. Check #4068 out.
5. More AJAX to pretty up the management panel.
6. Tags support! Honestly, I use my categories for tagging, so I don’t see how I could take advantage of the tagging support. Yet. It will have Tag Cloud support. It’ll have Tag Clouds. For those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior, there’s an importer.
7. Better Importing. And exporting.
8. Post editing fixes. Yes, the wp_autop function is getting improved.
9. More robustness. If you activate a nasty plugin, WordPress won’t die now.

So far, so good. There are a lot of minor changes and very small bugs that have been killed. This next version of WordPress promises to be the best WordPress ever.

And, of course, once it’s released, Turbocharged will be upgraded very shortly afterwards. if you’re a Turbocharged customer, you will be able to download the latest upgrade right away.

That’s it for today. Have a great day!

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