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The goodies are coming

November 14, 2008 By

As of little more than an hour ago, Donncha checked in a bunch of changes and a regular WordPress merge into the trunk of WPMU.  Of course I immediately checked it out and updated one of my local installs.

Can I just *SQUEEEEE!!!!* in here?

I have already been playing with the beta version of WordPress 2.7 and I am a *huge* fan of the new admin area. Yes, they redid it again. But I think they got it right this time.

Anyway. Donncha has rolled it into trunk. As always, this is trunk and probably unstable. So, do not upgrade your live site with this.

Other than the regular WordPress changes, which you can read about all over the internet, the only things I noticed so far were:

  • - some styling needs to be done on the Site Admin menu item (look on the left) and on the header areas of the menus themselves
  • - sticky posts! :D
  • - installing plugins from the backend has been disabled and brings up a “you do not have sufficient permission to install plugins” error, even as site admin. Which is probably a good thing at this point.

To checkout via svn, type this in command-line:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk/

Or download the zip out of trac.

p.s. – did I mention that it would be a bad idea to roll this into a live site?

Edit: Trent gives an overview here.

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Comments

  1. Dr. Mike Wendell says:
    November 16, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    but me like upgrading trunk with risky code. :)

  2. Trent says:
    November 16, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    Funny how you posted this within minutes of my posts :) It really is going to be nice when all the changes from 2.7 get rolled in. It is mainly changes to the admin area, but it is exciting already.