Your blog still using that super old version of Wordpress? Now is the perfect time to upgrade. It is the biggest upgrade in years and here are 3 reasons why:
1. New Built-in Automatic Wordpress Upgrade.
It’s about time. There are various automatic methods for upgrading your Wordpress installation, but they weren’t perfect. Once you have installed Wordpress 2.7, you can upgrade to future versions with a single click. It’s officially supported, so no need to worry about it breaking on you halfway through. No more headaches or wasted time doing it manually.
2. Completely Re-Designed Admin Interface
With all the awesome Wordpress themes that’s been designed, the admin interface was sorely lacking. Instead of clicking through 2-3 menus to get where you’re going, everything can be accessed easily now. User-friendly Icon Menubar on the left, large stretchable typing area in the middle, and publish/ tags/categories boxes on the right.
The Dashboard was also redesigned to show your post/comments stats at a glance. You can even blog a post directly from the Dashboard through the QuickPress function. Once you try it, you won’t want to go back.
3. New Comment System
The coding for the comment system was completely redone. Without having to use plugins or custom php code, an updated theme will have Alternating colored comments, Author styling, Threaded comments that allow you to reply, AJAX editing, and multiple paged comments.
With all the new features in 2.7, I was able to remove 3-5 plugins and reduce a ton of custom coding. You can see many of the new Wordpress 2.7 implementations on Creativeherb.com as well. What are you waiting for? Get 2.7 Beta 3 here, or future latest releases here.
the new interface looks great! really stoked about the upgrade function! Might just upgrade my blog cause of that. I notice its still in beta though have you found any major bugs in it? or find any of your old plug-ins being incompatible with the new overhaul?
Thanks Andrew, everything worked like a charm. Installation was quick and all the plugins I have works great too. I was also able to scale back on 3rd party plugins and use the built-in new functions of 2.7. You should view all the different ‘class’ properties of my commentlist area, it’s all default too, without any plugins or custom coding. Can go crazy with CSS styling with all those properties.
I agree, 2.7 is amazing. It’s so advanced, in fact, I’m surprised it’s not 3.0
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