The upcoming WordPress 2.9 Upgrade is going to be full of some great features and of course everyone will have their favorites. A lot of the new features will focus on Media, such as basic image editing inside WordPress, easy thumbnails with each article and easier embedding of shared media (ie: YouTube et al).

The 2.9 upgrade features lots of new things for developers to hook into, but my favorite feature is one that may get little attention.

Due to the number of WordPress sites I run, manage or maintain, I sometimes don’t get back to my own sites for a while, and when I do there are inevitably updates to a bunch of plugins. On one site, I just spent 20 minutes (mainly due to a slow connection for some reason), updating 7 plugins.

WordPress 2.9 will now feature a “Bulk Update” option which would have allowed me to update all 7 of those in one click instead of 14 (update, then return to plugin page = 2 clicks per update). At that 14 is conservative because some I clicked into the details to see the changelog.

Yep. I’m thinking “Bulk Update” will be my favorite new feature. What feature are you looking forward to most?