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Finally the “Baker” version of WordPress arrived yesterday, with so many cool & more enhanced features. Named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, this WordPress had got a lot with it for the people who love it. Major improvement were done in the themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speedwith about over 790 bugs fixes. This video explains  more than the words.

Highlights of what’s new in WordPress 2.8:

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API

• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors

• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin

• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns

• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options

• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment

• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module

• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

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