Wordpress 2.9 is in the market with new features to its credit. Not one or two, a total of 5 new features! Here are those 5 new features of Wordpress 2.9 -

Image Optimizer Feature

Undo Delete Feature

Thumbnail Support Feature

Embedd using Oembed Feature

Batch Plugin Updates Feature

Take a quick look at each option:

Image Optimizer:

Worpress 2.9 has an in-built Image editing option that provides you use a lot of Photoshop properties. Now for any type of Image editing, you don’t’ have to entirely depend on Photoshop or several other tools, Wordpress carries a lot of those features - not all though. With Image Optimizer in Wordpress, editing picture is really going to get easier for anybody using Wordpress.

Undo Delete Option:

Something that can be retrieved after loosing is always a great option to have. Wordpress 2.9 too has brought out Wordpress undo delete option that lets you recover any post, draft, comment…that got erased by mistake. Isn’t that cool?

Thumbnail Support Function:

This may not be very easy to assimilate. A video tutorial of Thumbnail support would be a better mode to get hang of this feature. However, ‘Thumbnail Support’, in a nutshell, allows you to register ‘post thumbnail’ to let you attach images to your posts.

Embedd using Oembed Feature:

Since long embedding a video to Wordpress has been a bit trouble. But not any more. Now there is Oembed support in Wordpress for easy video upload on YouTube, daily motion, Flickr, Qik, Scribd, Google Video, PolldDaddy Blip.tv, Hulu, Viddler, Revision3, Photobucket, Wordpress.tv and et al.

Batch Plugin Updtaes:

In just one click update multiple plugins! That makes it so much easier to manage your plugins.

This was all about new features of Wordpress 2.9. However, for clearer insight of how these really work, you may have to wait a little for video tutorials.