18 Mar 08 A Look At WordPress 2.5

I just installed WordPress 2.5 RC1 and I must say, holy wow. Major changes and improvements. You can totally see the transformation not only in appearance, but functionality. WordPress definitely is leaning towards a blogging platform which can be used for multi-media along with the traditional text. The biggest change aside from the looks in my opinion is the Media Library feature and the ability to seamlessly integrate video, audio, and photos straight inside of blog posts.

It seems a bit smoother too, it flows nicely in design and speed. Management features and functions were revamped as well. WordPress is now sporting a much better tag and comment management, which is a huge plus for me.

Well, I found a bug, I remember writing about it but I just realized it didn’t show up.  The issues occurs when you go to add a type of media, for example, I was trying to add an image, it uploaded the image, then once I went to insert the image into the post it brought me to a blank dialog box and did not insert the image.  I expect an update in the near future, unless I completely missed something - which is possible too.

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Tags: development, perfectography, wordpress