After reading about the new version of WordPress on Web Monkey, I couldn’t resist grabbing a copy of the beta release and taking a look for myself. Now, I’m always impressed with WordPress. It’s one of the few CMS platforms out there that I’d truly consider a joy to work with (MODx is the other). The thing I love the most about WordPress is the level of thought and attention to detail they put into usability. Where other content management systems would throw in feature after feature to try and pad out their feature lists to impress nerds among us, those guys at WordPress have always shown restraint and concentrated on doing what they do better than anyone else.
In the new version the team at WordPress Central have given the back end a complete overhaul. But amongst the super-cool use of AJAX, slick gradients and curved corner form fields, the new administration area screams of WordPress usability. It’s so simple and intuitive, after just a few minutes of poking around you’ll instantly have your bearings. Yet under the hood it has a level of flexibility we haven’t really seen in previous versions. You can customise the dashboard any way you want to adapt it to your own workflow and productivity. It really is quite magical!
The full release is scheduled for the end of this month, but in the meantime here are a couple of screen shots to keep you going till then!
O my goodness! Look at all those Firefox toolbars! Their sheer gravity is enough to make my track pad finger throb! How in the world do you cope, you poor victimized web addict!?!
Well you see Joey when you are a *professional* web designer all those little toolbars can be quite handy from time-to-time!