Don’t Jump Into WordPress 2.6 Blogging Software
If your into blogging and use then you may be aware that WordPress 2.6 has been released a month earlier than scheduled, and it shows. If you didn’t like 2.5 then you are not going to like 2.6 any better. The release has at least one bug and, despite assurances from the development team, there are no changes or clean ups to 2.5.
The latest version has a tendency to break permalinks, particularly if you are on sites that don’t use Apache. Blogging relies on strong permalinks and this is not really a good sign. There is an easy, but dirty fix to the problem. One of the new features is the ability to include categories and tags in the permalinks structure. If you leave these options empty in the permalink setting page, your permalinks will break and deliver 404 errors. The fix is to simply put anything into the category and tag sections.
WordPress 2.6 does have a few nice features that may make blogging a little friendlier. These features include: Word count, Plug-in update notification bubble, bulk management of plug-ins and image captions.
If your blogging includes multi users WordPress will keep a post revision history. One feature that may be of use is the theme preview feature. You can now preview a new theme before sending it live to the blog. You can at least get an idea if anything is going to break before committing to the new theme.
I would suggest you wait for WordPress 2.6.1 - blogging relies on good permalinks and 2.6 is not permalink friendly. Otherwise it does the job without being to spectacular.
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