WordPress 2.7 Sneak Peak Review

Oct 16, 2008 Author: Rohin | Filed under: Blog, Tech, WordPress

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Wordpress 2.7

It’s not done yet but the release is coming fast & harder than any versions prior to 2.7 at least from what I have heard. Regarding my view on the recent acquisitions made by WordPress parent company Automattic , I beleive this is great move by them. Intense Debate will be implemented soon making the comment system more interactive and inviting to your readers will create a stronger community for your blog / website becomes. Not to forget about the other acquisition recently made for PollDaddy.

~The new additions to the powerful blogging platform are plentiful in the upcoming upgrade. A few of them will include the following (Pulled from the source itself)

XMLRPC Comments API
Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
Sticky Posts
Theme update api, like we do for plugins
Dashboard and write box rearranging (write box in trunk)
One-click plugin installs
Reply to comments from admin
Core updating
Frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
Plugin browser embedded
PHPXref hosted on WordPress.org
Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements
Comment threading
Comment paging
Batch and inline editing
HTTPOnly cookies
Column hiding for all management pages
Post box hiding for all edit pages
Upgrades and install over SFTP

Snapshots of visual changes WP 2.7 is going through (latest trunk 10/16/08)

A few changes are immediately noticeable ;

Top Admin WordPress Menu is shifted to the left Side
Write/Manage buttons are now managed via Post n’ Pages

My take

The Good

Threaded comment is always cool albeit iphone-ish. But I’m really excited about the new company they acquired Intense Debate that system looks a lot more appealing and appetizing than Disqus for some reason. (I’m always going with style over substance hah!). They also bought the company Polldaddy

The Bad

Personally just the initial shock from the re-arranging of the dashboard, leaves me very traumatized. I’ll have to drink a lot of Jack Daniels tonight with the guys to erase those memories by tomorrow. (But I pray some cool coder out there makes a plugin to fix the left side menu back to the way I remember it as.).

My other complaints would be that just overall I think WordPress is trying way too hard to make itself look like a complex CMS with a multitude of tools (some may call it bloatware). But it was the simplicity and originality that allowed millions of people take the first few steps of courage to dabble in online blogging. So if this is the final design of WordPress 2.7 I believe it’s going in the wrong direction.

Like many designers say “KISS” -> Keep-It-Simple-Stupid. If people want a bunch of features , there’s a butt-load of plugins. People aren’t stupid monkeys they all know they can get it from Wordpress.org’s Plugin Repository.

The Ugly

The Dashboard menu is ugly , repulsive & scary. Certain plugins that were previously used and popular prior to 2.7 will be implemented and built in-to 2.7’s core. The sad part is that the original authors won’t get the credit. But alas that is the way of the open source world. Some people such as myself will prefer the lighter core deprived of any plugins that I consider bloaty n’ sluggish.

What are your thoughts ? I’m kinda VERY intersted so leave a comment !

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WordPress 2.7 Sneak Peak Review October 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm 1

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Jane October 17th, 2008 at 10:17 pm 2

The screenshots you posted are not of a design direction…we’ve held off on implementing nay design until we had it pretty well nailed down. Posted some screenshots of what it will actually look like by launch over on the dev blog, you might want to check them out.
Rohin October 18th, 2008 at 8:01 am 3

Thanks for the picture , I guess I’m stubborn for change lol !
Dan Milward October 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm 4

@ Jane – your screenshots look so much better then the current implementation!!! I hope that you can drag the order of the menus on the left.

I think that posts & pages should be together… it hurts me deeply to see that they are not

That said. Perhaps the ability to make shortcuts will resolve all of that.

Caio,

Dan
wp.blogywalkie.com October 21st, 2008 at 5:50 pm 5

btw, you can just try wp 2.7 on my blog: wp.blogywalkie.com. Use “test” as your password and username

this is very new, wp2.7 on my blog is prototype version. only few blogger has copy of it, include me. check it out guys!!!!

check it out about wp. 27, online live wordpress, just at my blog!!!
Rohin October 21st, 2008 at 5:56 pm 6

I was thinking about setting up a demo , but some people may tamper with settings , and you really don’t see a lot as a low level user. It’s just best I think to just try it for yourself.

But props to you for setting up a minny playground!
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John Gohde November 9th, 2008 at 6:24 am 8

So, far I have yet to see one review comment on any substantive changes implemented in the new version. Version 2.7 so far, appears to be just a bunch of cosmetic changes. I find that hard to believe.

I will be waiting for the next boat load of plugins that will restore the old and better look of 2.5. When will the developers make up their minds about what they are going to call things? Please guys, figure it out once and for all. And, Kindly STOP torturing us users with constant totally unnecessary changes being made to the admin panels with each new release!!!

Just thought that the developers might want to know that my monitor is not 3 foot wide even if a few Kooks are in fact using two or three wide screen monitors at the same time.