Wordpress 2.7 review

Dec 11

I’ve just upgraded all my blogs, installing the new Wordpress 2.7 which seems to be fantastic! This is a review of the new Wordpress script.

First of all, I can say that Wordpress 2.7 has a new interface which, in my opinion, is better in terms of usability and design than the previous interfaces used on the older Wordpress scripts. You wouldn’t notice the changes looking outside-in, but inside-out. The admin panel got a very clean and modern look which reminds me of the operation system called Macintosh. Here’s how the new Wordpress 2.7 admin panel looks like (click on the picture for maximizing it):

What I like about Wordpress 2.7

I personally switched from Wordpress 2.2.1 (I know, I’m oldschool!) so obviously I had a big shock because the things are very different from what I was used with, but I addapted quickly to the new design because many things are now just much better! A new feature I really like is called “Screen Options”. What it basically does is to show or not show different things on the dashboard, things like “Right Now” (which is a short summary of your blog), “Recent Comments”, “Incoming Links”, “Plugins”, “QuickPress”, “Recent Drafts”, “Wordpress Development Blog”, “Other wordpress news”, you know, in general stuff that was before too but you couldn’t do anything about them. You aren’t interested in let’s say “Other wordpress news”? No problem at all, you won’t see that box any much longer! Another cool feature is that you can now drag the boxes and arrange them the way you like. To do this you must click and hold while moving the boxes.

Did you know that wordpress can be a feedreader too? Sure thing! You can now get the latest articles of your favorite blog right into your wordpress dashboard.

Wordpress Feedreader

What I don’t like at wordpress 2.7

There are only few things I didn’t like. For example, I am a person who should wear glasses, so I would liked it more if the font was a little bit bigger in the “New Post” page. Another aspect that I didn’t really like is still related to my eyes. Although the new design is clean and modern, there seems to be too much gray and my eyes are hurt. I would add some more blue.

Conclusion

All in all, Wordpress 2.7 is great, and I again recommend you to try it. This way you’ll experience something new, something that will make you be proud of wordpress, and you will stay up to date with the latest security updates.

How do I upgrade?

Very simple! All you need to do is to download the new script from here, access your ftp, delete the old “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” folders, and then copy all the new wordpress files (skipping wp-content because there are your themes, pictures, plugins, and you don’t want to lose that), overwriting the old ones. If you encounter any problems, feel free to add a comment here, telling what happened and I will try to help you.

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13 Responses to “Wordpress 2.7 review”

John Lessnau December 11th, 2008
I updated to wordpress 2.7 this morning on a few of my blogs. I like the backend design and some of the new features. As far as plugins, so far only “Get The Image” plugin is acting a bit weird. It’ll be a few days before I know if all my other plugins are functioning properly.

Alex
December 11th, 2008

Maybe you need to update some of the plugins you use as well. Luckily, on my blogs this wasn’t necessary.
John Lessnau
December 11th, 2008

cforms also seems to be broken. grrr.
Bamboo Forest
December 11th, 2008

haha - I’m in your recent comments : D
Modern Technology
December 12th, 2008

wordpress 2,7 is easy incredible

kesepian
January 8th, 2009

Alex, I agree with the grey theme, but did you noticed the Blue Theme option? It’s not so great but is blue

Nice blog!I just subscribed to your feed.

Alex
January 8th, 2009

Thank you!
Hmm no, where exactly is that blue theme option? Do I need to download another version (the blue theme) and reinstall?

Ross January 16th, 2009
I have to say I wasn’t too keen on version 2.7 at the begining of the week but it has grown on me. I have not upgraded all my sites to 2.7 yet because I noticed a few plugin’s I use don’t work with it, but I do like the new layout and functionality.

affiliate.solutions February 17th, 2009
You have sparked some of my interest and I am going to do some additional research. Feel free to check out some my blog in the near future… as I just posted a great blog about the 36 Best Wordpress plugins for 2009. thanks

gothik12 May 16th, 2009
Man, offtopic: I’d strongly recommend you to place a “Search through articles” on your website. You don’t have this and it’s a must have.

Alex May 16th, 2009
@gothik12 You are right. However, the search function has some minor bugs that I have to fix. Anyway, I’ll take care of that pretty soon.

replacement car parts January 20th, 2010
Some great features in Wordpress 2.7. However I find the area assigned to editing posts and pages is being overlapped by the Publish module. This makes it very difficult to see what is being typed. Can this layout be amended, say, by reducing the size of the Publish module?

seo
February 19th, 2010

Can i put an image ( a png perhaps) behind a video (embed the video from Vimeo) in WordPress 2.7?