WordPress 2.6 Notes

WordPress 2.6 is out. It’s cool. Take a look:

I’m most excited about automatic tracking of changes to posts and pages, but I’ll also probably come to like the “Press This” feature:
if you click “Press This” from a Youtube page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a Flickr page [...]

WordPress 2.6 Plugin and wp-config.php Path Changes

Ozh’s tutorial explains the details, but the short story is that we’ll soon get WP_CONTENT_URL and WP_CONTENT_DIR constants. And this is more than just convenience, 2.6 allows site admins to put those directories anywhere they want, so the constants will be the only reliable way of finding that info.