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.