The Inner Sanctum

I have been debating setting my personal blog back up for some time. It just so happens the week I decide to go ahead and do it a shiny new version of wordpress comes out. This version of wordpress sports a new interface for the backend. The most two noticeable changes are the dashboard and menus.

The dashboard is now able to be organized with drag and drop style windows. It also now come with a “QuickPress” Windows to start churning out posts immediately. Another window shows  general information about how many posts. comments etc.  In the Upper right hand corner there is a small gray tab labeled “Screen Options” that allows you to select windows that you want hidden.

The menus have undergone a complete transformation.  The tab bar has been replaced with a collapsable sidebar which feels more intuitive.  Gone are “Write” and “Manage” as they have been replaced with simpler items based on what you want to work with suchs as “Posts” or “Pages”. When the toolbar is expanded, actions (Add, Edit, etc) appear as a subitem after you have clicked the main item. When the toolbar is collapsed, subitems appear as a popup menu. The menus as a whole have been organized so that somone new to wordpess can learn to navigate pretty quickly.

The interface as a whole is very polished with a few small pet peeves that I can live with.  The Drag and Drop ability has been enabled on screens through the interface including the post screen.  There is a new plugin browser feature that allows you to search for new plugins and immediately install them provided you have  ftp access to wordpress directory.  SCP/SFTP (Uploading via SSH) is not supported at this time.