As you can see in the WordPress download page and blog, WordPress 2.8.1 has been released as a stable version to the public.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixed many bugs and security issues that version 2.8 suffered from.
What’s New?
Here are the highlights from the WordPress blog (you can also look at the whole list of new stuff in 2.8.1):
- Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
- Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
- The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
- A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
- Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
- Translation of role names fixed.
- wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
- Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
- Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
- Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
- SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
- Switched back to curl as the default transport.
- Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
- Stricter inline style sanitization.
- Stricter menu security.
- Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
- RTL layout fixes.
Should I Upgrade?
I already upgraded and It took about two seconds. No plugins harmed.
I think that everyone should upgrade because of the security problems in 2.8.1.
Did you update?
First I’d like to announce the upgrade of orenyotmov.info to the WordPress 2.8 official version.
Now, if you are asking yourself if you should upgrade then the answer is really just a big plain YES.
Why?
- Five second upgrade (no kidding). You click one button, do the auto-updating for you plugins (if needed) and you’re done.
- Widget management – This one is a dream coming true. In WordPress 2.8 the widget management was made ten times better. You can say goodbye to the old annoying “Save Changes” button and sidebar selection scroll down. It’s all in AJAX now, click save and your done, no page refresh for every change. In fact – no page refresh at all. There is also the “Inactive Widgets” section where you can store widgets that you no longer use, but don’t want to lose their preferences. Did I already mention it’s all using full Drag n’ Drop interface?
- Theme installer. No more 20 minute theme uploading! Now you just pick your theme and install it in second, just like the plugin installer. It can really save you some valuable time. There are also feature check boxes for all kinds of stuff that one can ask from a theme such as: number of columns, colors, sidebars, subject, translation-ready and many more.
- Most of the popular plugins are working great at WP 2.8, there is no need to be afraid about that. Maybe is the first week or so you shouldn’t rush and upgrade but now it’s all perfectly safe. If you are still nervous you better look up your plugins at the plugin list of plugins that work on WordPress 2.8. If a plugin that you are using is not listed – the best thing you can do is contact the plugin author.
Bottom Line
Just do it.
Plugin Description
Mass Custom Fields Manager (MCFM) is a plugin I wrote in order to help people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.
If you don’t want to spend your time editing each and every single post’s custom fields to the same value or you want to delete/update specific posts you don’t have another tool that let’s you do that.
Here is a screenshot of the plugins interface:
You can choose posts by category,ID,custom field value and more and with a click of a button manage their custom fields.
Download Link
The download link for the Mass Custom Fields Manager WordPress Plugin by Oren Yomtov.
FAQ and Feedback
If you have any questions please comment or contact me through the contact page.
