Blueberryware

So far I have had a very positive impression of WordPress 2.7-almost-beta. I have been using it for about a week now. Every day the new interface gets cleaner. I love the drag-and-drop dashboard, and the right now dashboard widget is pretty cool. At the moment I cannot access my cForms settings though. I suppose I should let the plugin author know this if they don’t already.

At the moment I am using the QuickPress to write this entry, I am hoping this entry will have wpautop applied to it as I am using double line breaks to denote paragraphs. I am sure it will.

On a final note, I first found the new “advanced” navigation, which is nothing but the icons intimidating, as I wasn’t sure what was what. I expanded them and after about two days I went back to just the icons, now that I have good idea what they are. I am very excited to see the rest of the admin changes be implemented, as the 2.7 admin screen shots look beautiful.

Update: Looks like I am right, the standard formatting functions are applied to QuickPress entries

Update 2: I wanted to provide the link for downloading the 2.7-almost-beta nightly build.  Also, I forgot a main talking point as why I wrote this article (besides the awesome new admin).  If you are going to be using WordPress 2.7-almost-beta, I do not recommend using Turbo  (google gears) for client side caching and speed improvements.  When you update your installation, the old images and CSS are still cached, and I have found they don’t update.  I am using Google Chrome Dev (0.3.154.3), but I suspect this issue will happen in any browser using gears.  This isn’t a recommendation against Turbo in general, just while WordPress is being updated on a nightly basis.  I use turbo on every site I am running 2.6.2 on.

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