As many of you already know, 2.7 has been released only after two release candidates! If you notice on the offical annocument, Matt thanks me for my contributions along with a number of other developers as well! Hopefully we can work on 2.8 sooner rather than later to avoid any major problems that we haven’t had yet in 2.7!
November 1, 2008 | Beta 1
After a long summer and fall, Beta 1 of WordPress 2.7.0 is out and ready for testing. This is not intended for production use, however, we feel that it’s stable enough for you to place on your production blog with minimal impact. Be sure to backup your blog if you are going to do it in-case anything goes wrong, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. The release date of Nov. 11 is been pushed back to be now the Release Candidate date. We are not targeting a end of November release date.
I like to give props out to Ryan, Jane, Westi, ViperBond, DD32, Azaozz, Mark Jaquith, and last but not least Matt for letting me part of the team in this round. Hopefully when working on 2.8 I can help in a bigger way with my attachment system with multiple gallery support worked on as a team. 
Well.. it ain’t a secret no more! Jane Wells posted some interesting pictures over on their flicker account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/donncha/2948804744/. There is also this one here.
Over the past several days I been working on upgrading the attachment system to include multiple gallery support in the code. I am please to announced that this feature coded and ready to be put into the trunk. For those who are currently using 2.7.x on your production blog (who what to test out this system by using the patch file provided here), you will have to run the upgrade script (wp-admin/upgrade.php) as your attachments will not be in the attachment tab (formally the gallery tab) for multiple gallery items to work. [ gallery ] and the subsequent user-defined items should still work as normal unless you start to item up into different galleries. Then you will need to define the group number (i.e. group=”1” ).
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An exciting new “under the hood” type presentation of how the 2.7.x layout in terms of the administration area will “end” up like. If you read up on the developer blog, you know that 2.7.x is still in alpha which means that document you can read about here can become out-of-date real quick when it comes to changes based on the developers needs for control and usability. I know I’ll need to edit at least one part of the layout for the “independent” attachment system I been working on for the 2.7.x series. A direct link to the PDF file is here.
I don’t know how many of you check out the svn trunk for WordPress, but I just got it installed so I can convert the new “gallery” feature (confirmed new feature!) I created to the 2.7.x line and let me tell you that the admin interface is freaking sweet. It’s very nicely laid out. I will post screenshots up soon so you don’t have to install the development files just to see it.
Update: Weblob Tools Collection posted a preview of 2.7 in a post. No mention of my updated gallery feature, but there are so many changes in 2.7.x I doubt he even knew it was coming.
As I told you about ~ two weeks ago, I updated the base code of WordPress to allow multiple gallery support making myself do:
[ gallery group="2" ]
… and it would show just the items in group 2. I also made it so I can designate items that I didn’t want part of the gallery system. So images could still be posted by themselves and also have a gallery that would show the items in that gallery. The default functionally of WordPress does not allow this so I had to dig deep into the WordPress code to do this. Now I am basing all this code of 2.6.1 and will be submitting it to the WordPress team for them to work on more and make it more efficient.
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