Wordpress blesses us ‘bloggers’ with a new 2.5 update. The update is a rather big one, including lots of new features and fixes for old ones. The visually biggest new ‘feature’ is the complete overhaul of the Dashboard UI.
The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.
All in all sounds sweet. I haven’t had a chance to peruse through the whole updated interface but from what I’ve noticed on the Post-page, the UI looks and feels very intuitive. The last version of Wordpress’ Post-page had a WYSIWYG editor that screwed up the html-code pretty royally. This latest version seems to have all the kinks ironed out, thankfully. I rarely use the WYSIWYG editor but along with version 2.5, there’s some cool features that help with adding different types of media to posts. Read about the full update here.