WordPress 2.9 Update
This is primarily intended for my clients who are using WordPress on the websites….you know who you are, right? Ahem…
Anyway, three exciting changes found in the new version of WordPress are “the Trash Can,” “image editing” and “video embedding.”
The Trash Can now adds a step between removing a blog entry or page and permanently deleting. When you “delete” something in WordPress 2.9 it automatically goes into a trash can (just like in Windows or Mac OS). You can go to the Trash Can tab and permanently delete the items then, or simply wait and WordPress will automatically delete the item permanently in 30 days.
An even more exciting addition to WordPress 2.9 are new image editing tools that will pop up when you insert an image into a post or page. The editing tool features a cropping tool as well as some basic flipping and spinning features.
The third new feature may come in handy for some clients and I will be trying this one out myself. This has to do with embedding video clips. In the past, to embed a video like a YouTube clip, you had to grab the embedding code from YouTube, then open a page or post and click on the HTML version of the editor, then find the location where you wanted your video clip to appear, and then paste the code. It wasn’t always a smooth process. Well, apparently – and I haven’t tried this yet – all you have to do now is grab the embedding code and place it where you want the clip to appear right on your page, then simply paste the code right into the page (using the standard Visual editor) and voila! The video will magically appear…or so I believe. I’ll check that one and get back to you.
To “embed” a video in either a page or a post on WordPress, you actually have to use the URL link code NOT the Embed code. Your code with be the one with the “http://….” NOT the one with the “<object width=…>” This might be a little confusing. But it works – see the embedded video at the bottom of this post.
To learn more about these new features, go to the Official WordPress blog where there is a short video explaining and demonstrating these new features.
Here is the sample of one of my You Tube videos
