WordPress 2.9 Update for SmallBiz Theme

WordPress 2.9 was released this week and comes with a bunch of cool new features.

Here are a few highlights:

Built-in image editor: crop, update, flip and scale right from within WordPress
Batch plugin updates: update your plugins all at once instead of one at a time. I use too many plugins so this will be a godsend for me!
Easy video embeds: Just paste your YouTube URL into your post or page and it will automatically embed it!
Custom image galleries across posts.
rel=canonical support (good for SEO)

This great post at Technosailor has a comprehensive review of the new features in WordPress 2.9.

We test every new WordPress release with our theme. This time we found that WordPress 2.9 breaks the nav menu on the SmallBiz theme.

So we quickly fixed that, and added in a few more cool features for good measure!

Update for WordPress 2.9 compatibility: fix for the nav menu issue, updates to the TinyMCE editor defaults since this was also updated in WordPress 2.9
More SEO Features: In addition to the local SEO goodness in the SmallBiz theme like business address on every page, areas served, and automatic hCard embedding, I’ve added the ability to override the HTML Title tag, Meta Description tag, and Meta Keywords tag for any page or post. You’ll see this in the Options panel for the home page, and in the new SEO Details box below the editor box on your pages and posts. This gives you total control over every page on your site without the All-in-One SEO Plugin!
Fix for broken preview in Themes panel: There was a problem previewing the SmallBiz theme in the Appearances section, and that is now fixed.