WordPress 2.7! Will it impact me?

Posted in Design.

November 17, 2008

It is a well known fact that many of you designers (particularly web) out there are WordPress junkies, such as myself. Needless to say any decent new update, plugin, all the jazz will make you pretty excited. And often with good reason.

So I, like many of you, got pretty excited when I heard about WordPress 2.7 and needless to say, I downloaded the Beta and gave it a thrashing on my localhost. And what can I say other then ‘BRING ON THE STABLE!’. It is very nice, the main difference is the Admin panel (image at end of post) which is very customisable, allowing you to move around and even hide all the little useful bits on all the pages (admin home, writing post, etc).

But while testing, the question popped into my mind… ‘Will this effect how I design in any way?’. Naturally, my cursor dashed to my google search bar and my fingers hammered the question, but not much came up. Apparently it was either a question nobody had asked, or a stupid one that didn’t need to be asked. So I figured the best way to do it would just be to play on my localhost, and the verdict was… drumroll please. No, the template system and tags worked exactly the same thankfully. It has no effect on designing templates and old templates still work on it.

I then realized that it probably was a pretty stupid question, particularly after looking at the new features. Very few of which have anything to do with anything related to templates, and most of which are fixes and features that are either completely superficial, or perform out of common use and sight. So I slapped myself once again and went back to Photoshop.

In short, no, it doesn’t effect us as designers, but damned does it have a cool admin panel.