If you are using a bunch of plugins on your site you may want to wait a few days for plugin authors to catch-up with the development. While most plugins won’t be affected you can never be 100% sure whether you will run into trouble or not; and if you do, it is usually to late and you are really “missing that one plugin you always need”.

The most striking features in WordPress 2.6 that are interesting for this page are the updated “Blog this” – presslet (quickpost basically), the ability to use captions by default (quite sure this can be used in a variety of themes in a more “sexy” way than the default), and the ability to select and deselect posts by clicking shift (and hold it).

Below is a quick video illustrating the new features of WordPress 2.6