As announced today by Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Dallas, Automattic has officially released WordPress 2.5, along with their new site design!
What’s new in WordPress 2.5? The biggest change you’ll see is the new administration theme, designed by HappyCog. The new theme definitely streamlines and simplifies the WordPress interface a lot. It also includes a customizable dashboard, built-in galleries (hallelujah!!), built-in Gravatars, and even faster loading speeds.
This build of WordPress is looking more fantastic than ever! Let’s give a huge thanks to the developers and designers at WordPress for a great release!
WordPress 2.5 is available for download over at WordPress.org. And if you’re a WordPress.com user, fear not, you will receive an update to 2.5 in the next week.
As for WPCandy, we will be upgrading to 2.5 soon, as well as making sure our WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme is compatible. Stay tuned for more news on 2.5.
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- 7 August, 2010 @ 18:54 [Current Revision] by judson collier
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- 29 March, 2008 @ 11:41 by Ryan Imel
I don’t like this new theme. I want the old one. The Old One!!!
I love everything about WordPress 2.5. It’s so NEW and FRESH and just what I would expect from those crazy Automatticans.
The Blog Post on the front screen of wordpress.org about wp 2.5 is leading to an empty post and after installing v2.5 on my local testsystem, it says “development version – stay updated” with a link to the svn repository.
*wondering*
Glad its released and I will upgrade when my hosts installer application sees it (Its so much more simple than the normal WordPress installation) I do think the design is an much needed improvement but Mike should have designed it
The Brazilian Portuguese translation is not complete, as far as I could see. It’s in Portenglish.
This release appears to be rushed. Many still can’t perform a simple image upload.
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This is dumb. They should have spent time slimming the current wp down and then making it cooler.
Robert: The reason for that is because none of the testers used IE7. The bug will be fixed in 2.5.1 and is already fixed in trunk.
If you’re implying that I use IE, then I’ve been insulted.
Robert: No, I was noting that the bug only appeared to happen on IE7. If you are experiencing it otherwise, please file a bug on http://trac.wordpress.org/
Nice! Get it updated asap I wanna have a dig at the interface!!!!!
I use the automatic installation from cpanel so anyone have a clue when will I get the automatic update?
@Jermayn – You would have to contact your host about that.
I’m actually loving the new design, I was sceptical at first, but since using the RCs, and not just looking at screen shots, I’ve found I have a much better work flow than with the old layout.
The design is a move in the right direction anyway, the old style looked old!
it’s very good!