WordPress v2.6 is out today and I’ve upgraded the blog here to the latest and greatest.

Plenty of new features in this version, like a handy word counter to the right of the window I’m typing this post in. Other features include:

• revisions for posts, which is quite handy for collaborative posts or tracking edits to entries,
• “Press This” bookmarklet, which you can use to instantly start writing a new post right from your browser’s bookmark bar, and pull content from that page right into your post, including media and quotes,
• live blog theme previews, which allows you to see an actual preview of your blog before you apply the theme,
• support for Google Gears, Google’s offline browser application, making WordPress administration much zippier on slower connections,
• drag-and-drop re-ordering support for blog post galleries,
• improved plugin management, including support for enabling/disabling multiple plugins in just a few clicks,
• improved post managment, allowing for multiple post modifications at once,
• added Identicon, Wavatar and MonsterID capability, which automagically generate a unique avatar based on your e-mail address, assuring that your avatar will be unique as well as consistent regardless of where you use it.

Triumph Tulip, Wikimedia Commons Image of the Day: July 15, 2008.

Lastly, the fine programmers have included the ability to add captions to blog-embedded images.
Plenty of new features, plus about 200 security and bug fixes. Keep up the great work, folks!