Version 2.6

WordPress 2.6 was released, July 14th, 2008.

The database version is 8201.

New User Features

• Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions.
• Display captions of images alongside them in posts and pages.
• Add paging of Themes in Design panel
• Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages
• Press This bookmarklet
• Add sorting to gallery
• Export/import post excerpts
• Theme Previewer
• Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
• Show when a term is both a tag and a category
• Wider Profile fields
• TinyMCE 3.1
• Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name

Developer

• The default meta boxes on the post, page, and link edit page can be removed and replaced. They can be added via add_meta_box()
• Support for Google Gears managed offline storage
• Latest JQuery update
• Allow wp-config.php to exist one level up from WordPress root directory. New file wp-load.php designates location of wp-config.php file.

• WP_CONTENT_DIR - full path
• WP_CONTENT_URL - full url
• WP_PLUGIN_DIR - full path
• WP_PLUGIN_URL - full url
• WP_LANG_DIR - full path
• Deprecated constants declared with limited backwards compatibility.

• PLUGINDIR
• LANGDIR

• Add current_category option to wp_list_categories