Download Wordpress 2.9.2 - the latest edition

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.9.2) is available in two formats from the links to your right.




New Features

■Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)

■Add support for 'include' and 'exclude' to [gallery] (Gallery Shortcode)

■Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client

■Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer

■'rel=canonical' for singular pages

■Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors

■Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file

■Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly

■Support location of category templates based on 'category-slug' as well as 'category-id' (Ticket 10614)

■Support location of tag templates based on 'tag-id' as well as 'tag-slug' (Ticket 10868)

■Support location of page templates based on 'page-slug' and 'page-id'

■Set "Allow my blog to appear in search engines" to checked in installation

■Don't offer to make a category its own parent

■Remove Sphere from search list

■Minify admin CSS

■Show correct max upload filesize error message

■Add 'rel' attribute to next/previous post links

■Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML

■Clean up '.button' and '.button[disabled]' CSS classes, add 'spinner' and 'gray-out' buttons after clicking Publish or Update post

■Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title

■Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme

■Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages

■Display comments in descending date order, consistently

■Add means of automatically repairing tables

■Press This bookmarklet fixes

■Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt

■Don't show "Change Permalinks" button when editing the page set as "Front page"

■Image editing

■Retire BunnyTags importer

■Retire Jerome's keywords importer

■Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks

■Update SimplePie to 1.2

■Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1

■Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)

■TinyMCE 3.2.7

■Remove rel='tag' on links in Tag Clouds

■Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()

■Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys 'd = trash' or delete depending on the screen

■Show "Draft updated" instead of "Post updated" when saving draft

■Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period

■Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message

■Separate fields for 'image alt' and 'image caption' in Media uploader

■Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet

■Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were 'corrupt' new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables

■Export and import custom taxonomies

■Admin copy improvements

■Don't show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory

■Make codex link open in a new window

■Change 'Remove' link on widgets to 'Delete' because it doesn't just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater

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