If you don’t know, Wordpress 2.5 is kind of a big deal. It will be significant Wordpress update. Aaron is saying he’ll convince you to switch to WP if you don’t use the WP already. I’d love to see @michaelsigler’s point of view on this. And some @chriskalani? @ahockley said it like this:
WordPress 2.5 is due to be released any day now, and the upgrade offers both cosmetic and functionality enhancements for the WordPress platform. Come learn about what’s new, what looks different, what theme authors should know, and what plugin authors (and users) should keep in mind for the upgrade. And if you’re not currently using WordPress… come let me convince you to switch platforms.
We seemed to have a good time at the Green Dragon last time, so let’s do that again. If you do this sorta thing, RSVP on Upcoming.
Wp 2.5 is a groundbreaking release for quite a few good reasons (builtin image galleries, easy to embed video media tools, gorgoeus new dashboard) and a few bad reasons (widgets no longer drag and drop, the admin backend has been made more complicated, 3 clicks to do what one used to). Overall it’s a win but is still lacking the simplicity of earlier incarnations.
As to the beerandblog event, Aaron did a fantastic job explaining the perils and pitfalls of an unreleased version while encouraging excitement about the best blogging platform bar none.
Ok first, don’t link to my twitter profile… Second… I love wordpress always. I like that they made the UI not suck. As far as organization and stuff goes I love it. There are a few little things that bug me but I am getting used to as time goes on. I love the write page, it feels really nice. Overall it’s not THAT different. Just sexy. I don’t like how they handled the secondary nav and whoever designed it pretty much has opposite views on vertical alignment than I do. What more do you want from me?