New Wordpress 2.7 Features and Screenshots
As mentioned about a week ago, I finally got around to updating my wordpress installation and rather than go for version 2.6.1 (stable) I decided to go “bleeding edge” and install it straight from Subversion.
I thought it would be a nice idea to write a quick post about some of the new features and include a few screenshots. I have to say, I’m quite excited about the full released so let’s go straight into what’s new.
As you will see above, the Dashboard has undergone a few changes and is, in my opinion, much improved. Highlighted in red is “Quickpress”, which allows you to write a post straight from the Dashboard homepage. There is also an Inbox and whilst this feature is not working yet, it seems to be a mix of trackbacks, comments, announcements and potentially even a way of contacting other wordpress site owners.
Above you will see the new “Install plugin” feature - I know that this can be done via a few plugins already, but it’s awsome to have it straight out of the box and linking in to the Wordpress Extend site - every install I’ve tried so far has worked but I think they need to improve the search tool slightly as I had a few problems finding what I was after.. so much easier than booting up an FTP client!
I was a little disappointed with the speed of the admin interface until I saw this beauty.. Makes the speed in uploading tons faster than in version 2.6.
The media library is a fairly new feature and this is now under “content” - it seems to allow commenting on actual images/videos/files but i’ve not played with this feature too much yet.
A few things have changed in writing a post itself - there is a new settings field that allows you to change some of the display options in the post and you can also make posts “sticky” to appear at the top of your blog, useful for people who use Wordpress as a CMS or for large updates / intro text. You can now also move the “widgets” around in the write post page, though I’m not sure why you’d really want to do this.
Comment threading (and reply to comments) will be installed as default and you can read about all the other planned changes on the wordpress site.
It’s looking good - whilst I wouldn’t recommend installing it on a live site I’ll probably keep it going on here and update it every week or so to look out for new changes.
Tags: 2.7, Blogging, new, Site News, site updates, Technology, Wordpress
September 9th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Hi James - Any chance of a walkthrough of how you’ve implemented SVN? I’m interested but a little daunted by it. Would be good to hear a simple breakdown of what it is and what it can do?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Hi James, I’m really diggin your blog. I just found you today and I like your writing style.
I can’t wait for Wordpress 2.7 to come out. So, are you running like a beta of 2.7?
I really like the new admin layout. I think a side nav bar is much cleaner and I’m really digging the quick press feature where you can make a quick post directly from your dashboard. Good for this quick thought/rambling posts.