It’s Time to Update WordPress to 2.9 Carmen

Dec 19, 2009 by Shivendu Madhava

Previously we wrote about that brand new wordpress 2.9 Release Candidate 1 is available for download for testers and tech savvy and soon that would be available to download officially for every wordpress users and now the time came and WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” is available on wordpress download page so get your wordpress updated as soon as possible, it has got some great features which every blogger will love some of them are listed below.

• Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
• Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of
• WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
  Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv

Download WordPress 2.9 Carmen