New wordpress (v2.7) is out and I’M LOVIN’ IT. Why, let me tell you about new features and upgrades in the new version of wordpress.

First of all to those guys who are not able to setup a blog yet, wordpress is a blogging platform (i would say the most easy and less complex platform). For you guys I will be giving a series on how to start a blog yourself. So if you dont want to miss that then subscribe to my blog right now. You can do that by entering your email address in the “Subscribe For Free” section in the top-right portion of this page, then click “Subscribe”. Once completed, I guarantee that you wont miss the wonderful tutorial am about to release.

Enough with promotion, lets get down to the features.

1. First thing is the visual appearance. It has been seriously over-hauled.

2. Re-structured the menus and added various new option.

a. Menu navigation is now side navigation .

b. Now its a drop down menu. It saves time by avoiding multiple clicks to reach a particular option. For ex: earlier it would take edit some theme (click Appearance>>Theme Editor), now you just need to drop down Appearance menu and then click directly on the editor.

3. A “Quick Press” box, which is very helpful when you have a great idea and you just need to save it as draft. It saves you from few clicks and does the job fine. Under “Tools” you will get a “Quick Press” button with which you can quickly make a draft of some text you have selected on some site or the URL itself. (I like this option. Very fast and cool)

4. Units in dashboard can be moved around. You can place them according to your like and it will stay like that. I would really like if there was an option using which i can add which all units should appear on the dashboard.

5. Quick edit options in comments/pages/posts- which is really good.

6. Quick comment editing, right from the Dashboard- now that’s cool.

7. A list of recent drafts on dashboard, so that you wont forget about it.

8. Quick Comment-reply right from the comments page itself, no need to go the actual post.

9. Thumbnail preview of images in the media library.

10. New plugin installer from site itself, no need to download/upload anything.

11. Plugin/Theme automatic upgrader. You dont have to download/upload anything. Just click “Upgrade”.

12. Advanced Import/Export options

13. New sticky posts. If you make a post sticky, the site will behave like usual blog, but one article will always remain on the top/front even of you update the blog.

These were the features which i found myself and interesting. There are even more features but it is highly techie which i dont think the public has any interest in.

Now should you upgrade your wordpress ? I would recommend YES. Do it ASAP so that you can enjoy its new features without loosing any more time.

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Am lazy to include pictures individually, so uploading it as a gallery. But check out the tags i have given for each picture.

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