Wordpress 2.7: If code is poetry, then this could be the Illiad
The new Wordpress release is looking sweet. Will be upgrading soon and trying it out with my ever-growing annual Christmas post, which has been in draft for far too long. Working full time and being a parent has cost blogging hours for sure. In the meantime, see what the best darned open source project is delivering for Crimbo:
I was well pleased with the 2.6 releases of Wordpress and had been operating an far fewer thir-pary plugins to make this one do what I wanted. Looking at 2.7, it looks like I’ll be able to run even fewer. Just from the looks of it, my top 5 reasons for upgrading are:
- 1) Blogging from the dashboard – a limited form of this is in my current dash, but this one is fully capable.
- 2) Mass editing from the dashboard. Less clicking around and easier organising
- 3) Browse design themes and plugins from the interface. the less I have to log in and out, the better.
- 4) Plugins organised at last? The problem with previous versions is that people could program their plugins to be managed in any section of Wordpress that they wanted and you had to click all over the place to find out where you were meant to manage them. I’ve not really confirmed it yet, but it looks like the interface has addressed this problem and is keeping them all in one place.
- 5) It looks really pretty.
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear – one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were – for the moment – unpopular.”