Almost there. We have one more week to go before the final release of 2.6. Until then, try out Beta 3. New since Beta 2:
- Image captions
- Yet more inline documentation
- “Add Media” buttons for the RTE full-screen mode
- Theme Preview fixes
- Gallery sorting fixes
- I18N fixes
See the full list of changes since Beta 2.
Ryan Boren 
Running it on my blog. Seems to be working well. 🙂
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Ovvv they’re speedy. I’m looking forwart to 2.6 stable version.
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after upgrading to wordpress-2.6-beta2, all the chinese characters in my blog are messed up, im scared to upgrade to beta 3. anyone know how to fix? many thanks.
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“# Image captions”
Thank you – THANK YOU – can’t wait
will be a pain going back and adding them, but a pleasurable, pleasurable pain
you know what I mean
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aha, i fixed it, lol.
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Update too fast, really looking forward to the official version.
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Theme preview and post revisioning are the best features in 2.6.
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voww !! Image captions .. is a good idea :0
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Again looking for more improvements, gonna upload this and install it on my live blog/s
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Good to hear that, when the final release will be out?
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Great work guys, really appreciate it but think im going to wait for the official release! In terms of security fixes or additions what can we expect?
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Seems that there is problem again with “/index.php/%postname%/” permalink structure like it was with version 2.5.
Glad I did’nt upgrade my main site. 😦
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Is it going to be possible to show image captions like I am doing it manually at the moment? This would be really great… Please look into the HTML code here, for instance:
http://philsblogging.com/2008/lingo-bingo-10-thats-spanischer-buh-n-howf/
It’s a P-tag with an image and a label-tag that is aligned left or right by css command. I’d love to see that function since it is a pain to do manually.
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Plus, are the rumors true that there is this Quick post bookmarklet like http://web.twelvehorses.com/projects/quickpost/ (Quickpost pluging) that allows tumblr ish posts.
I’d love to do this with bookmarks that I’d share and comment on them. So I woulnd’t have to use the del.icio.us bookmarking, since I hardly use the social features of this service.
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Hmm. I’m using the K2 theme with the latest SVN version of WordPress, but sidebar manager is not really working. I would think the problem is with WP 2.6 as it’s ok with WP 2.5, do you have any idea what happens?
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Running 2.6 beta 3 now. No problems… 🙂
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It’s a lot of work put into the these changes. When it ain’t broke why fix it? I think these updates are becoming too frequent.
Rather than having quarterly upgrade how about halving that time-frame? I think that would give users more time to learn the old one before rolling out the new. It would be nice if this comment is passed on to Matt as well.
Thanks for your great work.
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Good job… I really like the theme preview.
Can’t for wait the official release 😛
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András, are you defining a custom WP_CONTENT_URL. I just found a bug that will cause K2 SBM to break with certain WP_CONTENT_URLs. Changeset 8301 should fix this.
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images captions, great to see them added :D.
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Everything seems to work nicely here. Thanks for the quick beta release 🙂
The problem I noticed in beta 2 with the advanced options not opening was caused by an incompatiple plugin http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/ …
So stay away from that plugin for now if you are on the 2.6
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wow, good job sir 🙂
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It’s something to look forward to!
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Ryan, no, I’m not using custom WP_CONTENT_URL. The problem may be somewhere around /wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/sbm-direct.php as an AJAX request to this file gives back a login page (after drag’n’dropping an item to the sidebar and after clicking the (i) icon of an item). I had no time to debug what happens in the background. Maybe it’s something about my system, maybe a plugin cause this problem, I don’t know (I’ve tried it with r8301, currently it’s r8306). But others have problem like this as well: http://www.killjoy.net/2008/07/04/issue-with-k2-theme-and-wordpress-26-beta1/
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András, 2.6 does not send authentication cookies to the wp-content directory. AJAX requests need to be sent through admin-ajax.php and handled with a function attached to the admin_ajax_{action} action.
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installing 2.6 beta3 just reset all my stats 😦 how can i stop this from happening in the future?
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Can’t wait for RC, at least not a beta version 🙂
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This is really great, I love the captions, let’s hope they are slightly more configurable. But it seems like CSS can do all the things I need…
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