If you have a WordPress website with OrangeCat and you are on a Gold plan, your WordPress software was upgraded to version 2.6 over the weekend.

Some of the new features that I have found useful are:

1. The new “Press This” add-on for your Firefox or IE bookmarks bar that lets you post to your blog from any web page you happen to be on. For example, if you click “Press This” from a Youtube page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a Flickr page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post.
2. “Theme Preview” - When you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly.
3. And “drag and drop” reordering of images in yuor WordPress image gallery let’s you reorder how images are displayed regardless of the order you have uploaded them in.

The WordPress folks put together a video showing some of the new features of version 2.6. I found them pretty impressive and a definite plus in making your blogging easier. If you have 3:29 to make your life better, watch the video:

The Version 2.6 page at WordPress.org has a larger version of the video available.