Stumbling over to the Word Press 1.5.2 Documentation and Forums, I was astounded at how good everything looked. Not to say it wasn’t good before but it was bland, sort of and geeky functional. Therein lies the trouble of making something so good folks don’t look to the help (or messages) often enough to see how cool the latest developments are.
I was blown away by the design (but simple shiny things have been known to fascinate me.) Just when I thought I had a handle on WordPress this comes out and looks like I have more to learn. The initial interface appears similar yet with some fantastic style, but I can already see this goes way beyond a new skin. The editor itself seems more friendly, incorporating rich text elements – familiar from many places for the newbie; but I’m noticing the tags being tracked similar to some very advanced WYSIWYG editors – this will certainly interest the novice/intermediate.
Hosting it is new, too, I think. Though I have several installations of WP up and working, I chose this to get a feel and wet my feet first. The Upgrade sounds more complicated than I would have guessed and I would like to save much of what I’ve done. So this seemed a more conservative way to wet my feet, before I took the plunge.
