WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 came out while I was on vacation, so I just now have upgraded. There is a huge amount of fixes (and luckily the inserting of images is one!) so if you’re still on Beta 1, now’s the time to upgrade!
That’s about it for now… oh! Go play with Twitter. It’s quite fun!
WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 is out and I’ve upgraded the blog to the new version. There are some pretty cool additions (like Post Revisioning) and so far seems pretty stable!
Check it out here: WordPress 2.6 Beta 1
Release Info:
Post Revisioning
A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
Built-in word counting in the post editor
The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
XML-RPC API for changing blog options
Better SSL support for the Admin
Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
The ability to relocate your content directory
The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
Customizable default avatars
Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
Check box range selection with shift-click
TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
jQuery UI 1.5
Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements
Enjoy!
From Wordpress.org:
Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.
If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance.
I’m downloading now and will be updating here shortly… I suggest you do, too!
UPDATE - WordPress 2.51 is installed and live… so far, no issues! Whoo!
I’m a huge fan of Counterize II, but the one thing I wish it did was keep better track of my unique hits, rather than just all hits. I was playing around with the plugin and, after figuring out how it called data, made some changes for it to show unique hit data in graph form, rather than just visitor data. See here: Before (this is what the standard plugin displays): 
After (you can see that my modded plugin displays all the Unique hit information before showing the standard info): 
If you’d like a copy of this plugin, just do the following (those currently using Counterize can skip to step 3):
That’s it! Once you do that, if all went well, you will now have graphs showing all the Unique visitor data, rather than just the standard visitor data. Enjoy!! Please Note! This hasn’t been tested on any other blog other than my own, so buyer beware!
WordPress 2.5 (Final) has been released… go fetch it here:
I shall be upgrading in just a few minutes! As usual, I shall edit this post once it has finished!!
EDIT - All done! The biggest change I see right away is the plugin page now has the Active Plugins shaded green and the inactive in white… I like that much more than the gray and white they had been playing with.
Pit stop in Big Springs, NE. Off I go again! 2 hrs ago
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