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Introducing WordPress 2.8 – Baker
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WordPress 2.8 “Baker” builds on the changes begun with 2.7, making the blogging experience smoother and simpler than ever. This short video walks you through the latest additions.
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June 11, 2009
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2.8 (2), baker, featured (94)
June 11, 2009 at 4:42 am
Brilliant video. Thanks you
June 11, 2009 at 5:21 am
Great version, it also helped fix my one theme V2 errors automatically, Bravo WordPress
June 11, 2009 at 7:40 am
Great! I love WordPress! =))
June 11, 2009 at 8:04 am
I second Kovshenin. WordPress is just amazing!
June 11, 2009 at 8:47 am
Awesome video …grt work
June 11, 2009 at 8:58 am
Great video and great new features! Well done!
June 11, 2009 at 9:31 am
So much good work. Thanks WordPress crew!
June 11, 2009 at 10:30 am
Simply Fantastic! Excellent Work! Thx
June 11, 2009 at 11:52 am
Cooler, smoother, simpler blogging.
Right on target.
Now let’s get those plugins updated!
June 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Wonderfull update,
great movie to introduce everything.
Thank you!
June 11, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Great
Thanks Thanks Thanks 
Let’s try 2.8 
June 11, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Amazing stuff! I’ve been *waiting* for this since I started on the web… in the mid-’90s! The promise is – finally – coming true!
June 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I love WordPress. Thank’s for everyone whoever puts an effort in to it.
June 11, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Nice!
June 11, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Many congratulations. The video is very professional and makes an useful introduction to the new version.
June 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Yeah! 2.8 finally! Good job guys!
June 11, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Damm we love WordPress, it’s the Best way to Blog
June 11, 2009 at 5:33 pm
fantastic use of video to make a changelog understandable to non-technical users. great marketing, guys!
one thing. comparing dot versions of your software to jazz legends is embarrassing.
June 11, 2009 at 5:58 pm
sweet video…very smooth! Can’t wait to test drive it!
June 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I can’t wait until it goes into full public release!!
June 11, 2009 at 6:04 pm
WordPress might be amazing, but it seems that 2.8 does not live up to its hype. It is giving errors all around and I’m only getting blank pages.
June 11, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Very helpful features are included. I am definitely going to upgrade my previous version. Thanks.
June 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Lets try newest wordpress! always love wordpress
June 11, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Bella li!
June 11, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Without giving it much thought I upgraded from latest 2.7. to 2.8 and have a disaster. At first the site came up looking like a column of links down the left hand side.
After several attempts I got the design web site. Went into Site Admin and have a dashboard which is a series of links down the left hand side, which are those I would have if I had the standard dashboard screen. Most of them don’t work and those that do just take me to a basic text location. The whole thing is a disaster. I am Europe and not home in Australia. I want to get back to 2.7.? but I didn’t back up anything.
It is so stupid putting out something as bad as this – refer to comments pouring in on various forums – and it has been released to cater for someones ego rather than the users. Someones ego must by no have taken a battering and his reputation in tatters. You have stuffed my site.
If anyone can give me an easy fix, that would be good. If not I’m finished with WordPress and looking elsewhere as I don’t have the time for this sort of rubbish release.
Just in case you want to know, i am angry.
June 12, 2009 at 2:45 am
Sorry to hear you’ve experienced a problem. Due to the huge number of different factors involved with a self-installations of WordPress (from plugins to third-party themes, to hosting), we highly recommend backing up your blog before upgrading. If you continue to have problems, I’d recommend submitting them to the friendly folks at the WordPress.org support forums who might be able to walk you through resolving your issue.
June 11, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Nice additions, I just go to take a look at them.
June 11, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Great, wordpress is really a very nice CMS.
June 11, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Wow… wordpress is seriously the best!
June 12, 2009 at 2:11 am
Web developers’ ability to easily customize and extend WordPress makes it one of the most popular and powerful publishing platform. However every time a new WordPress version is released, developer’s should look at their customized solutions and accommodate changes.
W3Avenue has compiled a list of resources for WordPress developers that will help them quickly upgrade their themes or plugins to accommodate latest features.
http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/06/12/wordpress-28-resources-for-developers/
June 12, 2009 at 4:24 am
OOOOOOOOOOOO neato
June 12, 2009 at 1:48 pm
yes! Perfomance… )
June 12, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Very nice in wordpress 2.8! I will update now!
June 12, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Very nice! I love WP 2.8 so much. Thanks a lot Guys.
June 13, 2009 at 12:20 am
Great 2.8 is now ready to GO.
I will soon upgrade to that
Bye Hubert
June 13, 2009 at 1:14 am
Everything I could of asked for has been delivered. Thanks WP Developers!!!
June 13, 2009 at 10:27 am
Great work:)
Just upgraded and its looking good!
June 13, 2009 at 6:20 pm
a video is great, but not all of us have super fast internet connection please also add a text description.
June 14, 2009 at 1:30 am
the upgrade went so smooth, love the new dashboard and template, plugin install remove features.. cheers
June 14, 2009 at 2:14 am
Woooo! WordPress rocks! Its my favorite.
June 14, 2009 at 2:29 am
Nice overview of the new WordPress and I am sure you have even more for us in the near future. I Love wordpress.
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June 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm
System froze solid. I had to reinstall by FTP instead. I won’t use the auto update again.
June 16, 2009 at 12:55 am
SO NICE..
June 17, 2009 at 5:19 am
Wordpress may be the bet blog software around, but is has a lot to learn when it comes to both installation and upgrade issues.
You shouldn’t have to basically destroy and rebuild your site just to upgrade it. Unless you’re basically a coder or can afford a coder, don’t bother running WordPress.
June 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm
The new features are great and helpful, specially about plugin manager changes.
June 29, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Its cool. Thanks.
July 2, 2009 at 4:10 am
good information
July 24, 2009 at 6:29 pm
i am a wordpress.com user and i don’t have wordpress v. 2.8 yet….how can i get it? PLEASE HELP ME!
July 25, 2009 at 2:59 am
If you’re a WordPress.com user, you’ll always be running the latest version of WordPress, with some extra customization – we don’t use version numbers for the .com service, but because it’s taken care of for you, there’s no need to do your own upgrades.
September 29, 2009 at 4:58 am
Hey folks where can i get multiple sidebars like it is in this video? Is it plugin?
BTW Great platform and useful update. Thanks WordPress!
September 29, 2009 at 10:41 pm
The number of sidebars used on your pages is usually dependent on the theme you are using. You might want to take a spin around the theme directory and see if you find something you like.
October 12, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Cool
November 26, 2009 at 7:40 pm
A big COOL from me too
May 2, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Didn’t know about these videos, really will done…even watched it although 2.9 is already out
May 15, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Nice overview of the new WordPress, the new features are great and helpful, everything I could of asked for has been delivered Thanks.