I decided the other day to go ahead and go for it. I upgraded my WP to 2.5 even though it’s still a little raw. I thought that i would go ahead and get a feel for it so i could be up to par with what going to be the new WP standard. This way i’ll know if i should be using it for my clients or waiting for a better version.

There are a few new features that i think everyone is going to love. The Add Media is absolutely great. They cut out the need for a couple of plugins and helped out with placement of multimedia objects. (im really not that big on putting video on here anyway, but it’s still nice to know there thinking about me.)

Here are a few screen captures to take a peak at.

Another great option that has been added is that there are now three options for putting an image into a post.

1. Thumbnail
2. Medium
3. Full Size

What’s the big woop? well you can go to Setting / Miscellaneous and enter you sized for Thumbnail & Medium. You can still re-size it the way you’re used too. The actual big woop is the combination of these things when your uploading a huge image you dont have to scroll through you Post window to get to the corner. (again and again) – just another way to skin the cat -

ps – if you’re not a WP user thats nice, but ive used Blogger and its finiky and somewhat unreliable. The next time you get pissed off you should go check out WP. Im not telling you what to do, but do it anyway
:-)

Check this out.

Its a little demo video by Matt Mullenweg. He’s showing off some cool new features. If you’re not WordPress some of these new features might interest you in moving.

WP2.5 Release Candidate 1

There is finaly something to play with. I have yet to do any real testing and checking. Im just a little to tired and wore out to get seriously involved, but I can tell you this much. You might actually get some use of the Dashboard.

Here’s what they had to say about it.

The Dashboard’s most important role is to inform quickly and get you to where you’re headed in the admin. In interviewing users, we found that most of you ignore the Dashboard entirely — its useful information being mostly hidden in an overly complex design. The new Dashboard is focused on the most relevant tasks at hand: a quick summary of what’s published and scheduled for publication, the latest comments and incoming links, blog stats, and WordPress updates and news. You can add your own RSS feeds and edit the way information is presented so that the new Dashboard conforms to the way you use WordPress.

Let me know if you have heard anything good or bad.