WordPress 2.9 New Cool Features

New WordPress 2.9 came with enhanced feature. This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features,

Features of WordPress 2.9:

1. Post Thumbnails: add an image to be automatically displayed with the post in various views.
2. “Trash” status: deleted items such as posts, pages, and comments now go to the “trash”
3. Image editing: basic image manipulation for your media library. You can rotate, flip, resize, and crop images.
4. Widgets outside of sidebars: there is a new template tag called the_widget(), which allows you to put a widget anywhere in your theme.
5. Comment metadata: plugins and themes can now take advantage of arbitrary metadata for comments.
6. Custom post types: general support for post types other than ‘post’, ‘page’, and ‘attachment’.
7. Media Embeds: Now it is more easy to attach media files in your post.
8. Register_theme_directory(): plugins can now add additional theme directories.