I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 a while ago and have started drawing some conclusions.  Stuff I like:

  • It didn’t break my existing theme
  • The overall feel of the admin interface is cleaner
  • The visual editor sucks less
  •  Built in tag support
  • The comment moderation page shows which post the comment is on

Stuff I don’t like as much:

  • Aksimet doesn’t have a ‘recheck queue for spam’ button on the comment moderation page
  • The save/publish buttons are un-intuitively to the left of the post. (years of web use have taught me that these belong on the bottom)
  • Tags and categories are under the post.  While it gives them more space, they become somewhat hidden.
  • The checkbox for categories is at the bottom, but it still a scrolling list one-column wide.  If you’re going to move it, at least use the extra horizontal space.

Overall, I like it a lot better, but I think most of that is the colors are softer and the interface is brighter.  For my standard tasks for writing something and marking comments as spam, the experience is only moderately improved.  

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