One of the reasons that I’ve been a bit lax with SOTD this week is that I’ve been playing with a couple of bits of new software. And we all know how that just eats up the time, don’t we?
One of these might be of interest to my fellow bloggers – the beta release of WordPress 2.7. Coming as quickly as it has on the heels of 2.5, which was a major re-vamp of the software and introduced a brand-new dashboard, you wouldn’t expect 2.7 to bring too many changes. But boy, would you be wrong!
2.7 is hugely different from 2.5 – but in a good way. The dashboard has again been completely re-designed. This was, I think, in response to the negative comments that attended the 2.5 dashboard which seems to have been fairly universally disliked. The 2.7 dashboard, on the other hand, is a joy to work with. Its left-hand navigation menu is simple to use, and it’s more obvious where everything can be found. And it’s there whatever screen you’re looking at, rather than changing from one screen to the next.
In general the layout of screens has been overhauled to make everything more obvious and make the whole dashboard easier to use and less of a fight to get the simplest thing done.
Other changes that I’ve found so far that are really useful? Quick Edit lets you adjust categories, tags, time and date stamp, etc on a post without having to open the post and you can now reply to comments from the comment screen without needing to add any plug-ins (why hasn’t this always been part of the WordPress software).
If you haven’t checked it out yet (and are prepared to be adventurous – this is beta, after all) why not go and download WordPress 2.7 now? Have fun….
