Tech Talk presented Thursday March 19 2009.
Peter Thorson provided an introduction to the Division’s blog software (WordPress Mu) with a specific focus on the admin interface chances coming in the the 2.7 revision of WordPress.
Watch the screencast (requires QuickTime)
http://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/media/pcast/2009-03-19/Blog_Tech_Talk_2-reference.qtl
More about WordPress 2.7
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. (Download it now, or read on for more.)
Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, and sticky posts.
You can read more (and watch the video) about WordPress 2.7 on the launch press release:
