WordPress 2.6 will use Gears Plugin

The upcoming version of WordPress (v2.6), which is due for release in August 2008, will use Google Gears plugin. Unlike other web applications which have already incorporated Gears to provide offline capability for their users, WordPress intends to use Gears for a very different purpose – to speed things up.

WordPress 2.6 will use Gears to store some images, CSS files and other web elements to your local hard drive, so that the browser doesn’t have to fetch them from the server. This means, your common day-to-day blogging tasks like moderating comments or saving post drafts will be speedier.

At this point of time, Gears dependent features are being worked out. It’s not clear whether we’ll actually be able to save drafts or edit comments while working offline.

Sidenote: Google recently decided to change the project name of Google Gears to just “Gears”.

WordPress Trac – [Via: Labnol]

This post was published by on May 29, 2008

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  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    I’m still plucking up the courage to move from Blogger to WordPress. Everyone is adamant that I should, I just need to find the time to devote to the cause.

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    This will indeed be very welcome to regular bloggers like us.

  • http://software-today.com/ Kenneth

    Sounds good ;)

    I’m tired of waiting for WP to load all the time, so hope it works!

  • http://www.seoresults.co.za SEO Man

    Speed is of the essence in the online world, and it gets frustrating having to wait for WordPress blogs to load. Google has ID’d a really cool niche, and note how they disassociated their name from Gears so as to make their latest data mining effort not so obvious to the uninformed masses….

  • http://www.deemx.com DeeMX

    Google’s marketologs is really smart guys. I like their methods to promoting Google.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    Sounds good. But last thing I want to is wpress loading old version of css file while I am tweaking the theme even on refreshing. So will have to see how its implemented.

  • http://technologycurrent.com Julian

    I have experimented with blogger, word press, and serendipity… and Word Press wins by far…
    I have the latest edition.. When you install updates, does it mess with your site design or any links?

  • http://technodorm.com Fahad

    I like the sound of speeding up wordpress BUT I think the point raised by Pallab is quite valid and I guess we will just have to wait and see how wordpress implements it…

  • http://software-today.com/ Kenneth

    Sounds good ;)

    I'm tired of waiting for WP to load all the time, so hope it works!