My First Impressions About Wordpress 2.5

Written by Mr. Javo

Yesterday in the morning, I upgraded my wordpress from 2.3.3 to the new Wordpress 2.5. Easy as the preview Wordpress’s versions, I finished to upgrade my WP in a couple of minutes. To enter the admin panel, I had to update my database with a simple click.

I thought to write this post yesterday, but I wait another day to test the new platform and give you my report:

The Sections

The main change is the new structure of the wordpress panel. It is very cleanest, easy to navigate and beautiful than the preview version. The new dashboard is not so far to the preview version, though it is more organized, those boxes make easiest to check the recent backlinks, the comments, the statistics and everything you have there.

Also I like how you can jump between different sections through the Related links. You can see this box in every section of the new panel.

About the widgets, I think the old way to place them on the sidebar was a little more easy. They implemented 1-click to add the widgets, which is easiest than Drag and drop. But to remove a widget, you need to click Edit>Remove. Two clicks vs One Drag and Drop, D&D wins. However, still being very easy to place widgets on the sidebar.

The Writing Experience

There are new features which really improve the writing experience. Now, you can write in fullscreen, something good that help you to concentrate and don’t lose the focus on what you are writing about. Something interesting is that now you can add media as images, videos and audio, uploading them from your pc.

There are more technical features, but I will let you to discover them by yourself, upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 now!

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>> Posted on March 30st, 2008

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10 Responses to “My First Impressions About Wordpress 2.5”

General Marketing Blog (Who am I?) on 30 Mar 2008 at 5:32 pm #

i upgraded my blog last night. i have to agree the admin is great and the new writing features are fantastic.

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Tim (Who am I?) on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:31 pm #

Fullscreen writing is a great idea, it really does help eliminate those darn distractions.

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alexis (Who am I?) on 31 Mar 2008 at 10:00 am #

i upgraded too, but in localhost i get some errors, in ‘online’ work fine

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Ivy (Who am I?) on 31 Mar 2008 at 11:56 pm #

I used Wordpress 2.5 RC1 in my other blog before the final release came out. It was awesome, though I have some qualms about the navigation. Some of it is just counterintuitive. I don’t quite understand why plugins is placed on the right side when it is more commonly updated than the design. Things like that really irk me but it is overall a welcomed update. It seems to load my site a lot faster than 2.3.3.

I wanted to ask you… how did you post in fullscreen? I couldn’t figure out how.

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Mr. Javo (Who am I?) on 1 Apr 2008 at 2:17 pm #

Hello Ivy, you can post in fullscreen by clicking the icon beside the spellchecker’s button.
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Ivy (Who am I?) on 1 Apr 2008 at 4:45 pm #

ah i don’t use the full editor that’s why since it always screws with my page validation.

i should just test it out! thanks.

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JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes (Who am I?) on 1 Apr 2008 at 7:58 pm #

Next time show some pics - I’d like to see what the new interface looks like…

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Mr. Javo (Who am I?) on 2 Apr 2008 at 12:19 am #

Yeah sorry man, but I thought that all you have updated your version .
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Fern (Who am I?) on 25 Apr 2008 at 8:10 pm #

The theme of your blog is great. Job well done. How to win at guilt-free network marketing: Burn your names list, ditch the Thursday night hotel Ra-Ra meetings and NEVER pay for another worthless opportunity lead again!
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Hosting Review (Who am I?) on 9 May 2008 at 9:18 am #

I’ve upgrade some my blogs to WP 2.5. The new version has great feature & nice looking
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