Title: Version 2.6
Published: May 19, 2019

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# Version 2.6

## In this article

 * [New User Features](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-2-6/?output_format=md#new-user-features)
 * [Developer](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-2-6/?output_format=md#developer)

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On Monday, July 14, 2008, WordPress version 2.6, was released to the public. For
information on the bug-fixes and enhancements in this version, see [Changelog for 2.6](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6&resolution=fixed&order=priority).

For **Version 2.6**, the database version (**db_version** in **wp_options**) changed
to 8201.

### 󠀁[New User Features](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-2-6/?output_format=md#new-user-features)󠁿

 * Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to
   view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs
   between any two revisions.
 * Display captions of images alongside them in posts and pages.
 * Add paging of Themes in Design panel
 * Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages
 * [Press This](https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This) bookmarklet
 * Add sorting to gallery
 * Export/import post excerpts
 * Theme Previewer
 * Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
 * Show when a term is both a tag and a category
 * Wider Profile fields
 * [TinyMCE](https://codex.wordpress.org/TinyMCE) 3.1
 * Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name

### 󠀁[Developer](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-2-6/?output_format=md#developer)󠁿

 * The default meta boxes on the post, page, and link edit page can be removed and
   replaced. They can be added via [add_meta_box()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box)
 * Support for Google Gears managed offline storage
 * Latest JQuery update
 * Allow wp-config.php to exist one level up from WordPress root directory. New 
   file wp-load.php designates location of wp-config.php file.

 * WP_CONTENT_DIR – full path
 * WP_CONTENT_URL – full url
 * WP_PLUGIN_DIR – full path
 * WP_PLUGIN_URL – full url
 * WP_LANG_DIR – full path
 * Deprecated constants declared with limited backwards compatibility.

 * PLUGINDIR
 * LANGDIR
 * MUPLUGINDIR ([WPMU](https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU) 2.6+ only)

 * Add current_category option to [wp_list_categories(](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_categories/)
   [)](https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories)

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