1. After installing the password change prompt
, I first noticed that a new prompt message was added, indicating that the automatically generated password is being used. Does the user need to reset the password?
It may seem like a small update not worth mentioning, but sometimes, details are still important. For example, there is another small detail. Tags in Posts in the right menu bar have changed to Post Tags. This may be to let users understand that the page does not have Tags. If you are interested, you can continue to find other problems.
2. Add New Themes function
There is an Add New Themes function in Apperarance, which allows users to directly search for themes in the official WordPress theme site in the background. Searchable by keywords, tags, and authors, and includes very detailed filtering capabilities such as filtering by color, layout, fixed/adaptive width, features, and special items. What's more important is that you can preview and directly download, install and activate it.
However, the speed doesn't seem to be that great. In addition, the theme activation page also adds three links for activation, preview and deletion, which is more intuitive, instead of having to click on the theme preview first and then activate as before.
3. Change the Widgets configuration interface.
The Widgets configuration interface is updated to an interface that can be directly dragged and dropped, and is divided into two sections: available Widgets and inactive Widgets. This makes it easy to drag and drop some temporarily unused Widgets into the inactive area. But their configuration information is still retained.
4. Plug-in editor and theme editor
developers with code highlighting function should like this update. In WordPress version 2.8, both the plugin editor and theme editor support code highlighting and line number display. And under the plug-in editor, there is a function description, which allows developers to easily find the detailed usage of these functions when modifying the plug-in.
5. New user notification function
This function is very good for WordPress websites that open user registration. In User -> Add New, in addition to updating the interface, a Send Password function is also added. This feature allows administrators to add a new user in the background and send a notification containing the password to the user's email address.
6. More updates
and more minor updates, such as: the time zone setting in General, before there was only UTC option, but now many country and city options have been added (maybe because some users don’t know the time zone of their location) ). Personally, I think this function is a bit redundant, because after adding the country and city options, the option box is too long, making it more troublesome to find.
The interface, especially the input box, has been updated in many places. For example, the input box has become rounded (I saw it in FF, but it should not be rounded in IE).
That's all I've found so far. If you find other important updates, please feel free to share them.