I’ve grown fond of WordPress, my wife probably is even a little jealous at all the attention WordPress gets–especially in the middle of the night as I tweak something or other on the dozen or so WordPress-powered websites I manage for my clients.

Check out the newest features in WordPress 2.6. This is quick release shortly after the 2.5 upgrade. A lot of good security features have been added, including HTTPS support for admin, and the ability to move the main content (wp-content) to a user-specified directory.

Some of my favorites:

• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.

(And my favorite feature is back: “Press It!”– the bookmarklet-powered posting thing-a-ma-jig–is now called Press This! and has been made over with super-human powers.)

Check out the screencast video of the new WordPress 2.6 features: