Okay, WordPress 2.7 has just been released recently and The Staccato Slur’s just updated to it. The most immediate observable change seems to be the admin panel; the bluish-white “playful” colour scheme has made way to a more refined, classy greyish one, with the fonts used changed as well to contribute to a final user experience which feels quite… Elegant.
I got a video from the WordPress blog here about WordPress 2.7; well, you can see how the admin panel looks like here. I have no wish to congest the Internet further with screenshots of my own panel – they all look about the same anyway.
Quite obviously, I think that 2.7 is but a first step to greater things to come. The new interface will take time getting used to, but hey, they have already simplified plenty of things for me. The inclusion of an in-built plugin installer; comment threading and sticky post system will be good news for other WordPress users and I, now that we can do away with third-party plugins for such purposes. The most exciting thing is the clear “modular” structure everything now is arranged. That seems to be the trend with Internet applications nowadays e.g. the dashboard has draggable elements; everything is, or looks AJAXed to open and close intuitively etc. I like it. I find everything integrated, tight, uncluttered.
I think that should be it? All about the candy; I don’t have much to bitch about then. I like the candy and only the candy’s changed. I can’t think of what else WordPress lacks that I cannot extend myself… Ah, the power of open-source.
