Geeky Bits To WordPress 2.9

[Jeffro]

Some of you might have seen this already but Yoast has a cool article published that covers some of the developer stuff coming in WordPress 2.9.

http://yoast.com/wordpress-2-9-geeky-bits

My eyes perked up when I read that sidebars will now be able to have descriptions which ought to help with future themes as more of them have a bunch of sidebars. For example, telling the user where widgets in that sidebar will show up.

[chipbennett]

Some of you might have seen this already but Yoast has a cool article published that covers some of the developer stuff coming in WordPress 2.9.

http://yoast.com/wordpress-2-9-geeky-bits

My eyes perked up when I read that sidebars will now be able to have descriptions which ought to help with future themes as more of them have a bunch of sidebars. For example, telling the user where widgets in that sidebar will show up.

I agree. That is a feature that is both useful and much needed. I really like the implementation, and can't wait to use it.

[wpmuguru]

The one that caught my eye was multiple post types in the same loop.

[ryno267]

sidebar desc's = awesome... i took over a site that has 16 unnamed sidebars and it took me a looong time to go through the whole site and write it all down what they do.... fail

oEmbed and image editor mods are pretty sick for end-users

custom post types... awesome... can't wait to see where the community takes the new taxonomy stuff too

[Ryan]

sidebar desc's = awesome... i took over a site that has 16 unnamed sidebars and it took me a looong time to go through the whole site and write it all down what they do.... fail

Yup, descriptions are a terrific addition. Getting rid of the term "sidebar" while they were at it would have been nice too. Having a sidebar in my footer just seems plain wrong!