Wordpress 2.5 - First impressions
Mar 31st, 2008 by Kevin Holler
I’ve just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and i have to say I am quite impressed. Its going to take a while to get used to but in the long run its definitely a big improvement from the recent versions. Its also gotten quite the face lift and is looking extremely fresh. Which puts it right back up there with top competing blogging software.
The design is probably the first thing that got me excited. I always like to see a site or blog getting a new design. Some new eye candy is always interesting. The Dashboard has been restructured a little and been made a lot more functional. Content is displayed in a very nice way on the main page which gives the user an excellent overview of statistics and content. Tabs have been re-organized and are very minimal yet specific.
The posting system itself is what i hoped to see major improvements in. And that has been accomplished in this release. One of the new features i specifically love, is the ‘Add Media’ to your posts. Which eliminates the use for some plugins that were previously needed to do this.
The comments section has been re-arranged in quite neat way too. The overview of comments is now far easier to manage and moderate. Basically everything has been made a lot easier to use. Which will save people a lot of time and hassle and hopefully attract a new range of users. Its grea to see such quality software come from a open source community based project
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