Same as the WordPress Users, the wait for the wordpress 2.7 is inching closer and closer. WordPress 2.7 is still in development and is expected to be released in November. I can’t wait to see the new features that WordPress 2.7 has to offer.

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the features that have already gone into 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
• *Automatic upgrade of WordPress
• *HTTP Only auth cookies
• *New HTTP request API
• *A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Not all of those features are complete yet, but they are getting close.  WordPress developers are still hoping to add a few more features like Theme update, install, and browsing done in time for 2.7.

This is just a teaser of what’s to come in WordPress 2.7, more updates will be coming soon!

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