More Avatars?
At first I thought, new default avatars? What’s so exciting about this? (Avatar is the display/photo profile next to your comments).
Upon a closer look, WordPress 2.6 actually provides a uniquely generated avatar based on your email address, if you haven’t got a Gravatar set-up yourself!
Before, if you haven’t set your own Gravatar (in which you can set in under 1 minute), your display picture will show the “mystery man” avatar.
Now, I can choose automatically generated gravatar for you all! Unfortunately, you may not like it. Well, you don’t have a choice, unless you have your own Gravatar set-up :)
I can now select which avatars’ category to be generated for you
Some sample avatars generated by this new feature:
- Identicon
- Wavatar
- MonsterID
I chose the MonsterID as I think it’s quite cute to see what it can come up with. If you hate to be associated with a cute monster icon, then get yourself your own Gravatar :) And No, unfortunately you can’t choose what monster you’d want to be associated with as they are uniquely hash-generated. Read here if you want to know more about the algorithm or technology behind this.
Press This Shortcuts
Press this? Before you associate it with “Click this”, it actually has a different meaning. “Press This” is more like “Blog This”. If you are browsing a good site or news that you want to blog about, then having this “Press This” link on your Favorites or Bookmarks is very handy.
By clicking on it, a “mini” panel will be opened containing your WordPress “Write Post” screen – scaled down. This is useful if you want to quickly spread news about what you just saw/read.
Some other enhancements of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1:
- Plug-ins are organized better now – grouping active and non-active
- Post Revision – not so useful for me though. You can view all your saved changes and also compare different revisions. CVS a la WordPress!
Bug fixes that I can notice:
- I can now upload multiple files in one go, just like what it’s supposed to
- I can now see the progress bar when uploading files
Problems:
- Heard of bugs when trying to delete plug-ins through the admin, so stay out of it if you can
- I still get the “Loading…” texts everywhere on my Dashboard
- Pressing ENTER for more new lines don’t actually add extra newlines on the paragraphs – formatting lost after saving
- Can’t select/insert/delete an uploaded image. Clicking on the “Show” on any image on the Gallery does nothing. You can get around this by going through the “Media Library” instead.
For a complete list of changes, please make sure you read it on the official release blog. To upgrade or not to upgrade, that’s a question that you have to answer yourself, unfortunately :)
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