Running On WordPress 2.8 Beta

So while it may not always be the best idea to run a beta piece of software on a live site I figured what the hell and updated my blog to use the 2.8 Beta which was just released earlier today.

It has some nice new features that will definitely attract even more users. One of the major updates was the addition of a theme installer, so no more FTP’ing files onto your server. You can now just browse theme’s directly from your dashboard and install them. The only downside to this is of course you are limited on the themes that you can download.

Considering most of the premium WordPress themes aren’t in the WordPress Theme Directory you are still going to have to manually upload them to get them working.

You can view the full list of the updates to WordPress 2.8 by checking out the official WordPress.org 2.8 page.