WordPress 2.5 In More Depth

I’ve now had a bit of time to play with WordPress 2.5, and I now have formed a proper opinion on it.

It is stunning. I always thought WordPress had the friendliest, cleanest and simplest admin interface around. Good interfaces stick, and this revision of it fixes most of the few gripes I did have with it.

The items on the post page have been shuffled around into a more logical order: the post data has now gone below the post entry box (which, incidentally, uses a new revision of TinyMCE which works properly in Safari). The save/publish buttons have moved to the sidebar, and there’s also a ‘related’ section underneath that. It is very intuitive. This also applies to the page authoring interface.

Tags now have a category-like management system, which allows you to delete tags you don’t want. This matches the interface of the overall category, link and post management systems. All are excellent, clean and gorgeous.

I haven’t had the chance to… oh…

Edited: My post has just been eaten, presumably because I upset the image upload facility by (unknowingly) inserting an image at an odd place. That was my only complaint: the image insertion is broken. And it nibbles off the back of the post.

However, this should be fixed by the time of the final release. Apart from that, WordPress 2.5 is exquisite and comes highly recommended. What I believe to be the world’s best web application just improved significantly.

Edited again: Here we are.