Wordpress 2.5 = Epic Win
I’ve heard a lot of grumbling from people about the new Wordpress backend interface, but personally, I think it’s a piece of genius. Heck, it’s actually got me eager to post, because it’s such a joy to use - the profusion of old tabs is gone, adding media (like the Gears pic in the last post, video or flash music players) is a cinch, and some nice AJAXy/Javascript touches make the whole interface much more slick and web-app like. It doesn’t feel like a bunch of PHP pages hacked together by enthusiastic amateurs anymore - this feels like a professional, easy to use, fun web publishing tool. I’ve been a Wordpress user since the 1.0 days, Blogger before that, and I personally think this marks a really positive change in user inteface design, for Wordpress in particular, but blogging tools in general. The new interface has set a very high bar.
Oh, and auto-saving on posts? SWEET. Never again will a random PHP hiccup eat half an hour’s worth of writing.
