WordPress 2.5 RC1 First Impression
Delayed one week from the initial release date of March 10, 2008, WordPress 2.5 RC1 is finally out. Here are a few points worth mentioning from the announcement post:
For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up.
Yes, yes, yes. Music to my ears. Here’s my old post regarding Happy Cog’s involvement in redesigning WordPress’ backend.
You might also notice there are some new colors, the dashboard feels much fresher and lighter. If you’re jonesing for the old look under your user options you can now select the “classic” colors and get those old blues back. (It’s also pluggable so people can easily add or share their own color schemes.)
So, you can change the admin’s color schemes by creating plugins. Interesting. Here’s Ozh explaining how to do that in details. Now, I’m just itching to go to Colour Lovers and grab a few lovely schemes for this.
The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today
So, this is it. What I’m waiting the most from 2.5 is the redesigned admin, and if you’re like me, it’s probably quite safe to believe that the new design is there and ready to test. Now, let’s play!
