With the long waited WordPress 2.8 aka Baker being out, there is a ton of features including 2.8 being a way faster to use, widgets are remixed, some DB tables columns are dropped and JS script loader is improved. Experts and gurus have contributed with new tips to make the business even better.

There is an announcement post on the official Development Blog with an eye-catching introduction video.

Features, Tips and Tricks

1. A full list of more than 180 new features, improvements, changes and upgrades. —WP Codex
2. Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget With The New Widget API —WPEngineer
3. The Improved WordPress Widget API —WP Codex
4. The complete guide to creating widgets in WordPress 2.8 —Justin Tadlock
5. Tutorial: WordPress 2.8 Widget API —Jesse Altman
6. Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 —Justin Tadlock
7. Tag description in WordPress 2.8 —Justin Tadlock
8. Loading Javascript in Footer in WordPress 2.8 —Lester Chan
9. WordPress 2.8 and the body_class() Function —Nathan Rice
10. Authentication in WordPress 2.8 —Will Norris
11. Handling Plugins Options in WordPress 2.8 with register_setting() —Planet Ozh
12. WordPress 2.8 – XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes —Joseph Scott
13. List of Plugins Compatible with WordPress 2.8 —WP Codex
14. WordPress Proxysupport —WPEngineer
15. Escaping API updates for WordPress 2.8 —Mark Jaquith
16. Displaying Author Meta Information in Wordpress 2.8 —Zach Dunn
17. the_author_meta() in WordPress Codex —WP Codex

I know there are tons of talks around the new version but these are the only findings I discovered during the development releases of WordPress 2.8.

If you have suggestions and/or some other posts I missed in this collection, please feel free to contribute them in the comments.

I hope you enjoyed with this post.

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