It’s beautiful, fast and flexible! The best thing is – version 2.7 allows you to upgrade your WordPress blog with the one-click-upgrade feature, like what you have been doing while upgrading plugins in the previous version.

I’m going to upgrade all my blogs to WordPress 2.7 now.

Download the latest WordPress version here.

Check out the following short clip for a preview of WordPress 2.6.

Are you a WordPress user? Will you update to WordPress 2.6? Find out more about WordPress 2.6 here.

New to WordPress? Find out how to upgrade your own WordPress blog.

Download WordPress 2.6 now.

I’ll be upgrading this blog shortly after.

A week ago, WordPress announced that WordPress 2.5 RC1 is available for download. 4 days ago, another released known as the RC2 has been made available. The WordPress development team is really getting their hands fast on this. Today WordPress 2.5 is finally released to public, the stable version.

I believe a lot of blogs will be mentioning about this, however, I would still like to inform all my readers about the release of WordPress 2.5. A list of plugins have been tested for compatibility with WordPress 2.5. Before updating your WordPress, please make sure that all the plugins that you are currently using is compatible.

I’ll download version 2.5 and install in my local machine and test it out before uploading the new bunch of codes to my host. Are you ready for WordPress 2.5?

Also check out how to update WordPress.

If you refer to the roadmap, WordPress 2.5 was planned to be released on 10th March 2008. However, Matt from the development theme said:

The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date.

If you are interested to be a tester of WordPress 2.5 and have feedbacks, you can join the testers mailing list.

This is the new look of the Dashboard. It’s now wider and show a better quick summary of the entire blog. There are also changes in the navigation. It’s cut down by half and more organized now – easier to carry out tasks (especially for new WP users). The Write editor and Manage is improved in the new release too.

Here is an announcement of WordPress 2.5 sneak peak.

My Two Cents

I still prefer the old blue look of the Dashboard, instead of having a brighter color like orange. However, according to the sneak peak announcement, users are able to change the dashboard look to the old “classic” blue under the user option. Even better, “It’s also pluggable so people can easily add or share their own color schemes.”

Another feature that I think will be very handy is the number count on top of the Comment navigation. User can now easily know if there’s any new (number of) comments (including spams).

I also can’t wait to try out WordPress 2.5. Be alert these few days as it’s gonna release to the general public soon.