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• At 2009.12.21 00:34, Tweets that mention The 5 bestest features of WordPress 2.9 | Free Blog Help -- Topsy.com said:
  

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• At 2009.12.21 00:36, Brad said:
  

  Wordpress 2.9 brings so many cool new features.

  I know many people though who are waiting for 2.9.1 which is normal.

  Glad I upgraded by blogs .
  Brad´s last blog ..Palm Pre Now Only $0 at WirelessWave (Canada)

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  • At 2009.12.21 00:43, Gabe Young said:
    

    Rumor has it that in WP 5.4, your articles can be written for you while you sing in the shower. I can’t wait for that release.

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    • At 2009.12.21 00:48, Brad said:
      

      I can’t wait for the day speech to text actually works.
      Brad´s last blog ..ModNation Racers Preview

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  • At 2009.12.21 19:56, Dennis Edell said:
    

    I am one. lol
    Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The $10 Winner And More Good News…..

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• At 2009.12.21 01:09, David Hobson said:
  

  The image editing feature is my favourite addition to 2.9
  David Hobson´s last blog ..Brittany Murphy has died Aged just 32

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  • At 2009.12.21 09:13, Gabe Young said:
    

    That feature is definitely going to save me a bit of time in the long run.

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• At 2009.12.21 01:32, Avinash said:
  

  Image editing feature is a good one, but i cant find some new buttons like repair database and where to find trashed posts? may be i need to explore it more. A few screenshots would have been better.
  Avinash´s last blog ..Speed up Web browsing by finding the fastest DNS servers

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  • At 2009.12.21 09:17, Gabe Young said:
    

    The repair and optimize functionality is a bit tricky. There’s a two-step approach to get it to work…

    1. Add this to the wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);

    2. Enter this URL in your browser: http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php

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• At 2009.12.21 02:44, Simon | Teenius said:
  

  Personally I’ve just uploaded to 2.9 from 2.7 and, frankly, I have no complaints. However, it just seems practically the same to me. Sure, there’s very small yet noticeable changes dotted around, but generally speaking it’s just the same :p
  Simon | Teenius´s last blog ..57 Awesome Articles To Keep You Occupied Over Christmas!

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  • At 2009.12.21 09:19, Gabe Young said:
    

    All in all, your blog won’t necessarily be better because of the new version. However, many of the new features should save us time.

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• At 2009.12.21 02:50, Sahil Kotak said:
  

  WP 2.9 have some really good features which we were missing a lot in past versions. I am sure it would be a fun to use it. And thanks for mentioned the reasons here.
  Sahil Kotak´s last blog ..Make Money By Uploading Images

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• At 2009.12.21 04:17, Anand Srinivasan said:
  

  I heard the upgrading to 2.9 crashed a few plugins to a few people, though I didn’t have a problem personally.
  Anand Srinivasan´s last blog ..Be A Part Of The Bloggies Network

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  • At 2009.12.21 09:20, Gabe Young said:
    

    Some plugins that aren’t up-to-date may not work with WP 2.9 but that argument can be used with any release.

    Moving forward, the plugin compatibility feature should help a bit when upgrading to future versions of WP.

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    • At 2009.12.21 13:02, Shiva@Web Magazine said:
      

      Most of the plugin makers have now started to upgrade their plugins to be compatible with 2.9, I was just amazed to find that 5-6 of my plugins were awaiting upgrades
      Shiva@Web Magazine´s last blog ..Moi Magazine Free WordPress Theme

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• At 2009.12.21 05:46, George Serradinho said:
  

  I think that the editing of images is a cool feature to have and it will help many of us.
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• At 2009.12.21 11:17, Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend said:
  

  I’ve already used the image editing feature.

  What’s most interesting to me is the advanced article type functions which haven’t quite made it into front end yet. Got postponed again as I understand. It will be cool to write a “Note” and have it display only in a specific sidebar widget for example.”
  Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend´s last blog ..How to Increase Your Search Ranking — By Doing Absolutely Nothing!

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  • At 2009.12.21 11:48, Gabe Young said:
    

    I’m totally OK with their phased approach, regardless of whether or not these features are actually ready for prime time. I’m sure WP is saving some of them so future releases have more than just a ‘security update’ tag next to them.

    Still, WP is simply the most elegant blogging platform and no one is even close!

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• At 2009.12.21 11:51, The 5 bestest features of WordPress 2.9 | Free Blog Help | Wordpress Marketing said:
  

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• At 2009.12.21 19:57, Dennis Edell said:
  

  I am so looking forward to trashing without fear. lol
  Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The $10 Winner And More Good News…..

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  • At 2009.12.21 22:48, Gabe Young said:
    

    If the “trash can” saves me just once, I’d be forever grateful!

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• At 2009.12.21 21:55, Jayce said:
  

  Updated one of my blogs to 2.9. So far so good.
  Jayce´s last blog ..How to hack Facebook account profile

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• At 2009.12.22 06:13, Blog4Boys said:
  

  Direct Trash option is good & image cropping & flipping is nice.
  Blog4Boys´s last blog ..Realpress Multi Coloured WordPress Themes

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• At 2009.12.22 09:01, Arafat Hossain Piyada said:
  

  I like the trash feature, now I don’t need to worry when I do something wrong unwillingly.
  Arafat Hossain Piyada´s last blog ..Following Microsoft Virus Scanning Advice May Push You In Danger (Security Alert)

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• At 2009.12.22 09:07, uberVU - social comments said:
  

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• At 2009.12.22 09:16, Tinh said:
  

  Just fixed missed schedule bug and hope the next version can get these bigs fixed too. Thanks for sharing the most interesting feature
  Tinh´s last blog ..Thanks to HostGator for Both Reliable Service and Money

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  • At 2009.12.22 10:09, Gabe Young said:
    

    Their defect list will truly never end. Good thing they actually work on them on a regular basis!

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• At 2009.12.22 10:45, poorblogger said:
  

  I’m not update it yet..
  I think my space hosting needed to upgrade ..
  Only 20MB left with 2 wordpress blog..
  Not enough
  poorblogger´s last blog ..Adsense with new interface, can we make more money ?

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  • At 2009.12.22 12:29, Bangaloreloka said:
    

    I guess one wordpress blog takes 8mb.. you must be uploading images to your server.. too bad! Just make an upgrade of hosting.. it’s worth the money!
    Bangaloreloka´s last blog ..What’s my Blogging Plan 2010 with Bangaloreloka?

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• At 2009.12.22 12:27, Bangaloreloka said:
  

  I did upgrade it and the box buttons are super classy.. concerning about those features of wp 2.9 they HAD to add ‘em to keep der bloggers happy
  Bangaloreloka´s last blog ..What’s my Blogging Plan 2010 with Bangaloreloka?

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  • At 2009.12.22 15:46, Gabe Young said:
    

    One thing WP has always done well is keeping bloggers happy.

    They could probably get away with doing a bit less since WP has the market cornered as the ultimate bloggers’ platform but I’m glad they continue to innovate and deliver.

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• At 2009.12.22 21:40, Holly Jahangiri said:
  

  My favorite feature so far is that upgrading to 2.9 got rid of that “Attempted upgrade to 2.8.6 has failed. Please try again now.” Like heck I will – two failed tries, to me, spells b-u-g-s. 2.9 seems stable, so far.

  Unfortunately, the one feature I’d really like to see (code named, “Keep your mitts off my hand-coded HTML, darnit!”) doesn’t seem to have been implemented.
  Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Exhausted & Overexposed: Hand-Crafted Hypertext Disappearing from the Web?

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  • At 2009.12.23 08:39, Gabe Young said:
    

    WP 2.8.6 was supposedly addressed two security issues so it shouldn’t have caused too many fits.

    Anyway, glad WP 2.9 has been smooth for you so far.

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• At 2009.12.23 00:22, Ruchi said:
  

  Editing images has really become simple thanks for sharing it.
  Ruchi´s last blog ..How to use Digg Effectively to Promote Your Blog

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• At 2009.12.23 01:58, Neo said:
  

  Is WordPress little bit worried about free wordpress…Can we expect anything from wordpress for those whose blogs are hosted on free wordpress.

  Thanks
  TC

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  • At 2009.12.23 09:43, Gabe Young said:
    

    You’re right that WordPress is primarily focused on the self-hosted app (wordpress.org).

    Since the free WordPress (wordpress.com) has many limitations compared with the aforementioned, there’s only so much that they can offer in terms of new functionality.

    That said, it’s still the best free blogging tool out there. No recent news on updates though.

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• At 2009.12.23 05:51, Ramkumar said:
  

  The trash & Image editing features are really cool
  #Off the topic: Your new theme looks great
  Ramkumar´s last blog ..How to: install VLC Player in Linux

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  • At 2009.12.23 08:40, Gabe Young said:
    

    WP 2.9 is nice, just nothing earth-shattering.

    And thanks, I love my new theme too!

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• At 2009.12.27 18:42, Keith said:
  

  I tried to upgrade 2 sites and both crashed due to plugin compatibility problems, will be waiting a little longer before trying again….
  Keith´s last blog ..Sunday Funny’s: Drunkest Guy Ever

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  • At 2009.12.28 01:24, Gabe Young said:
    

    Ouch! Fortunately for me, I had no problems at all on any of my sites.

    When you upgraded, have you checked out the new plugin compatibility feature?

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• At 2009.12.31 00:58, Anish K.S said:
  

  Image editor is good, upgraded to latest.
  Anish K.S´s last blog ..Installing Fennec on Nokia N810

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• At 2010.01.06 01:52, bankowned said:
  

  I believe the editing of images is a cool feature to have and it will help many of us. Thanks for sharing.

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• At 2010.01.18 08:59, TechChunks said:
  

  A nicer image editor and bulk plugin upgrader are among my top favs in WP 2.9.
  TechChunks´s last blog ..Amazing Video of Airplane Laser Hitting a Truck!

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• At 2010.01.25 13:55, Will said:
  

  I am just glad that I can use it and not have any problems anymore!!
  Will´s last blog ..Advantages To Insulating Basements

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• At 2010.06.22 09:28, Robert S said:
  

  How many space I need for upgrades? I have only 12 meters on free space. Should I move my blog?
  Robert S´s last blog ..Save on claims by keeping rats out

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