The plugins management page has been overhauled to better match other management pages. There are status filters for All, Active, Recently Active, Inactive, and Update Available. There’s also search and paging with a screen option for setting the number of plugins to show per page.
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Ryan
When on a management page, the Favorite Actions dropdown now defaults to the create page that corresponds to that management page, and vice-versa. For example, visit edit.php and the dropdown displays “Create Post”. Visit post-new.php and the dropdown displays “Edit Posts”.
Ryan
plugins.php and edit-comments.php remember the last status filter you selected. Try it out. If we like this we can add it to other pages that have filters.
Ryan
“Screen Options” for the post, page, comment, and media management pages now allows setting the number of items to show per page.
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amfprod
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Baris Unver
relevant thing: it’d be better if you “delete” the items (with jQuery), not “hide” them. the “wp.com stats” widget on dashboard still tries to load stats, even if it’s hidden.
Ryan
Image header cropping now uses Jcrop.
John Myrstad
Would be nice to include a cropping like the Scissors plugin which use Jcrop…
Frank
@Robert: Thanks a lot
Ryan
Soliciting feedback on new Widgets API
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amfprod
Not related to the API, but I really hope when the new widgets page is updated it comes OUT of the Appearance tab and becomes its own tab. This really should’ve happened from the start. Widgets are too hidden away.
Charles
It’s good for WordPress, but not for me. The new Widgets API means I need update more than 10 widgets in the near future… …
Denis de Bernardy
Apart from trac ticket #9703, which is deadly, it’s working well so far.
One missing feature would be a WIDGET_DEBUG mode, that would place the server’s feedback in a special div tag at the bottom of the page — without needing to edit the WP code base and use a js debugger. Debugging a new widget’s upgrade scripts is mostly impossible without such a thing.
Also, last I checked anyway, it broke old style multi-widgets. If it still does, it would be sweet that it didn’t — else, quite a few plugins will need to be rewritten. But that might be asking for the moon. 
Ryan
Converting default widgets to the new widgets API.
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GaMerZ
I did convert it using the API, tested and works http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2009/03/17/new-wp_widget-class-in-wordpress-28/
Jeffro
Now if I remember correctly, weren’t we able to configure certain widgets to have multi instances in WordPress 2.3? Is that the way this will work in WordPress 2.8?
GaMerZ
Yeap, but now, almost all widgets support multi instances if it is done with the new WP_Widget class
Ryan
2.8 will land some time in April. People seem pretty happy with 2.7 so we’re taking time to work on some areas that need extra attention, like widgets.
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Omar
sweet!
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amfprod
Thank god! Widgets need a complete overhaul!
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James
I’m with you. I don’t understand what was wrong with the old 2.3 way of doing things. It was easier to get an overview of what was where in your sidebars (since I use 2 on my main blog, but would love to have 5 (2 sidebars, 3 widgetized footer areas)).
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Kirk M
Great to hear. I’m currently running 2.8 bleeding in a local sandbox and I like what I see and hear about already, especially the improved DB efficiency. Can’t have enough of that. Also looking forward to the overhauled widgets interface as the last “rebuild” unfortunately missed the mark by a long shot (but not every overhaul turns out right despite the best of intentions).
Fine work so far.
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Jeffro
I wish Andrew the best of luck revamping the widget management area. I’m predicting a system that is between the one for WordPress 2.3 and the one we currently have. By the way, really liking the syntax highlighter as well as the function lookup in the theme/plugin editors.
Ramoonus
april is over, releasedate in 4 weeks?
Ryan
Fixing bugs for 2.7.1 and thinking about 2.8 features.
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Frank
Nice, please thinking for the problems with the automatic update of the core and with the language-files. I works with a great team many ours on WordPress Germany and we give so many support. Now we have the problem: our language hav diefferent possibilities (You and She) Now it is not possible to to use the different language. We hope for new constants to define the language. maybe is this possible and maybe we can download our language-file to your SVN.
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Robert
I guess Frank means, that there are more than one salutations in Germany. On the one hand, there’s the the formal one (Sie) and on the other hand there’s the more informal one (Du). After an update to version 2.7 therer were many complications on the users side because of having an update notice in the backend after updating to the german version from http://wordpress-deutschland.org which is widely used in the areas which are speaking the german language.
jottlieb
If WordPress wants to be a software made by the community, then it would be consistent to involve the german community – which is wordpress-deutschland.org. We have a great and expanding developer team, a magnificent community and highly topical blog. As de.wordpress.org is just a one-man-show without a community or any further services, whic is just deterrent for the users. We’ve heard the opinions of our users – the most are sick of the muddle with the different german versions and weird translations.
Woo! This is an excellent addition.