New WordPress 2.7 Will Have Automated WP Upgrade Feature

by Shanker Bakshi on October 2, 2008

Enough of fighting with WordPress Upgrades every other month. Our new WordPress 2.7 will have this new feature which will allow us to upgrade every WordPress upgrade afterwards automatically within our admin panel.

What is New “Crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panel?

According to The Blog Herald:

The new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTP Only auth cookies, and much more. The MOST exciting features are the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation.

Other Features of WordPress 2.7

Ryan Boren unveiled in his latest some new cool features of WordPress 2.7

New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of Meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
Reply to comments from the admin
Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
Sticky Posts
Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
HTTPOnly auth cookies
New HTTP request API
A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Can you switch over to WordPress 2.7 bypassing previous upgrade WordPress 2.6.2?

Many of us not taking WordPress Upgrade 2.6.2 seriously and waiting to switch over directly to WordPress 2.7, but it is advisable to upgrade to 2.6.2 before heading over to new version as the security flaw this update repairs applies to all PHP applications, not just WordPress, and specifically targets those with open registration, which includes multiple blogger blogs and registration for comments. All are seriously recommended to download WordPress 2.6.2 and upgrade immediately.

So as I always say just wait for the whole new WordPress Blogging Experience.

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Bruno Auger October 2, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Its such a pain in the butt upgrading all the time but since they will have this automated feature it will make it a whole lot easier.

Shanker Bakshi October 2, 2008 at 4:55 pm: for me the most annoying thing in the whole blogging process is to upgrade the open source time and again.

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Dennis Edell October 3, 2008 at 7:44 pm

So bypassing 2.6.2 for 2.7 will not fix the flaws? I’m confused…

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Marlene October 4, 2008 at 6:22 pm

This is what we need, the automatic upgrade when new Wordpress version appears in our dashboard. The plugins can now be upgraded automatically, then, why not the wordpress versions. I got tired of updating so until now I still have wp 2.5.1

Dennis Edell October 4, 2008 at 6:57 pm

I’m on 2.3.3 waiting for 2.7

Shanker Bakshi October 5, 2008 at 10:38 am

2.3.3 is a very old story mate, hope you will fall in love with 2.7

Dennis Edell October 5, 2008 at 8:03 pm: Old? Perhaps…..I prefer to think of it as “old-faithful” seeing as it’s the last fully stable version before the calamity nicknamed 2.5v

ZK – I believe 2.6.2 is what it’s up to.

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ZK@WebTrafficROI October 5, 2008 at 2:06 am