Upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.7

It’s a really warm Saturday, so there’s nothing better to do for me then try to break my blog. Yesterday the big “blog news of the day” was that WordPress.com decided to go ahead and upgrade their hosted solution to their latest release od WP, that is the famous CrazyHorse dashboard of 2.7.

If you somehow missed it, Automattic threw a lot of money into usability and completely redid the interface. If you haven’t seen in yet, this is a screenshot I’ve made of it yesterday for Zemanta blog:

The whole menu structure is now on left, with the actual writing screen nicely widgetized. They’ve really cleaned the whole thing and improved copy of the interface as well as optimized for common tasks.

Is it worth it?

I’ve been in a contact with quite a few people about 2.7 and most of them told me that they hate the new interface and that they really don’t like the way it’s forcing them to re-learn their habits.

To this I say: too bad! I’ve been using WP 2.7 in our development for a few weeks now, loosely following their development branches and I can say that’s is a real improvement. Once you move away from the “I don’t wanna learn” phase into “Oooohh, shiney!”, it gets perfect. Upgrade as soon as you can as it’s much faster, easier and it’s going to make your blogging on WordPress much more enjoyable.

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