![]() I’m not sure exactly how it works – I think the plugin has to be registered at the offical wordpress plugin page, but I’ve definitely used it multiple times myself, but it’s only visible on the plugin page. WordPress 2.7 does show you when a newer version of a plugin is available, and allows you to auto-update it. If you were waiting to upgrade or are looking to switch, now is a great time. WordPress 2.7 is an excellent upgrade. As best I can tell it’s unchanged from WP 2.5. ![]() No matter how many times I use it, I’m slow with it. It’s slow and complex – not designed for the simple/common cases first. It’s a flash based UI that jarringly takes over the screen only to show a progress bar. The add picture/video UI is still a bear.There are big improvements on plugins: there is now an auto-upgrade UI in the plugins manager that lets me know when plugins are out of date, and even auto-upgrades them from within WP. But I run a site with very few plugins because when they break, they BREAK badly. There are tons of these made, but it’s hard to find reliable ones that I’m confident will be supported into the future, or will stay in sync with wordpress upgrades. I’d happily pay $$$ for a pack of premier plugins that are top quality and come with some kind of promise of service. I bet other people whose blog is their business would as well. I’m still confused and scared by plugins.I should only see the color red on my dashboard if there is something urgent and bad I need to deal with. It should be regular text, yellow, anything but red. Sure, spam is bad, but Akismet, their built in spam catcher does a great job and I never need to look at Spam. Red is a danger color – it means something is broken or wrong, but since there is always spam, I always see red on the dashboard even when things are ok. The dashboard uses the color red to indicate the count of spam comments. Haven’t had it work yet, so I’ll report back when it does. The promise of auto-upgrade. My hand copying of files may be over. WordPress 2.7 includes what appears to be a built-in install program, so I shouldn’t have anything to fear in the future.There are various non-intrusive UI additions like these and they all made me smile, I knew they saved me extra clicks that i do several times a day. The plugins are now auto-divided into active and non-active. Lists now give a short set of commands on mouse over, so one click can now approve, delete, or edit or even reply to comments. Many small design choices that over time make a huge improvement. ![]() The major UI change is shifting navigation to the left pane, which seems trivial but works great. It reduces confusion with the UI stack I’ve complained about before. This also allowed the category chooser UI to move up where it’s easier to access. Plus they added a quickpress tab, which allows short posts without a single extra click. The default view emphasizes what I do often, by default, approving comments, replying to comments, tracking drafts, etc. All the stuff I did first was obscured and it all seemed like news about WordPress details I didn’t care about. The Dashboard rocks. Previous versions never made me feel warm and fuzzy.Definitely the best software I use regularly, hands down. It’s a fantastic piece of design excellence and simplicity. Best blogging software I have ever seen ever. Well, after using this thing heavily for a couple of weeks I don’t have one yet. WooHoo!īut more importantly as a usability expert I rarely use things that I can’t find something to complain about. And this upgrade to 2.7 totally was.įirst and foremost, they finally have auto-updates – it should be the last hand-copying of files I ever need to do. As a mostly non-practicing geek, I don’t write much code or touch command lines often, so despite my CS degree, I don’t trust myself and I wait to do this until I think it’s worth it. Hand copying files, even as few as are required for WP, always runs the risk of doing something trivial and stupid that blows everything up and is hard to recover from. I hate upgrading WordPress for one reason: hand copying files.
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