WordPress 2.7 has just been released and I wasted no time loading it up. It seems like WordPress gets updated as often as the newspaper. I find it comforting to know that its continually being worked on.

With this upgrade comes an interface-lift. Though it wasn’t a terrible interface before, I thought there was some room for improvement and streamlining. Seems that the developers thought it needed a whole lot of improvement. They’ve replaced the dashboard with an AJAX heavy homepage.  It sure looks pretty, but I’m going to need some time with it before I decide how functional it is.  I remain optimistic.

So far actually it doesn’t seem like it’s going to change my work-flow to much.  Administration feels different though.  Had to update a plug-in along with WordPress.  My only complaint at this point is the strange way it refreshes the screen when I click on a tab to the left.  I jump back to the top of my screen and it was a bit disorienting as I was exploring and clicking through menu options.

Update:  The plugin that 2.7 broke is now no longer broke.  Glad because I didn’t like the alternative as much.