In my spare time, of which there is very little, I have been toying around with WordPress 2.9. One feature I am pretty excited for is the new image capabilities (primarily image editing and thumbnails).

For one I think the new image editing capabilities will solve more problems for my clients than they will create, I hope cross your fingers. While it will probably take a bit of coaching and some good documentation, it will hopefully start to eliminate some of the unsightly things I have seen done with post image inserts. I also think it will be slightly less confusing to explain this process to a client over explaining to them that they need to open up their image editor and crop it to a certain number of pixels.

The second feature I am pretty excited about is the ability to add thumbnails similar to what you would see on magazine themes in particular. No outside scripts and only a minor bit of php. The thumbnail has been available, now WordPress has given us a way to add it fairly easily.

Check out this article for further info New feature in WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image()

I also see these new additions adding some interesting capabilities to the themes we develop. We shall see what happens, all in all I think these additions are welcome.

Time to get back to dabbling.

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