Wordpress 2.7 will be awesome

Can’t wait for some of them I’ve just come across a list of new features planned for WordPress 2.7 on Ryan Boren’s blog. Looks really exciting. Here’s what he lists:

• New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
• New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
• Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
• Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
• Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
• Reply to comments from the admin
• Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
• Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
• Sticky Posts
• Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
• Automatic upgrade of WordPress
• HTTPOnly auth cookies
• New HTTP request API
• A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

There’s so much exciting stuff in there, I just can’t wait. The automatic upgrade of WordPress will be sooo useful, but others, like Sticky Posts and threaded comments mean extra functionality that just get deployed out of the box. Exciting times. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a dail-up connection or using satellite internet services, more and more websites you’ll be visiting will be running on WordPress.