Comments on: Be thankful WordPress gets updated

By: Tagesgeldkonto

Tagesgeldkonto — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:51:15 +0000

I use for all my blogs wordpress because its easy to administrate wordpress. I like it. The new auto update is great is saves a lot of time.

By: Webdesign Regensburg

Webdesign Regensburg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:08:42 +0000

WordPress is a great tool! Why: you can use it as blog, als CMS for a professional website or for your personal use! The plugins are stable and secure! The new version has an auto-update-function and the themes are modern, stylish or crazy!

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:42:44 +0000

Mike Padgett
I’m not sure if I’d like working in a place with everything colored grey.

Tim
I think WordPress.org has a donate link somewhere if you feel like donating.

Greg
Yes, you’re correct. I first started playing around with 1.2, which was well before I started using it on my site in May of 2005. I’ll correct the post to reflect this.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:19:53 +0000

Wasn’t 1.5 out by May 2005? I upgraded from B2 in June/July 2004 and that was 1.2 days, I’m sure 1.5 came into play around February of 2005 and indeed 2.0 around the turn of that year

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:08:05 +0000

I love wordpress. I have been using greymatter, pmachine, expression engine, blogger, and settled on wordpress since opensource is the best way to go! I am so impressed with the wordpress community I’d like to donate! It’s fantastic and as long as the automatic updates work, I am happy!

By: Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.7 Available Now | Aslifm Blogu

Lorelle on WP: WordPress 2.7 Available Now | Aslifm Blogu — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:38:43 +0000

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By: Mike Padgett

Mike Padgett — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:25:11 +0000

Sorry, Justin. That was a bit presumptuous of me, wasn’t it? I should really download 2.7 and use it before I talk about grey I hope then that the WP team maintains that option in the future!

I read somewhere that the colour grey is supposed to help you think better than any other colour. They’d done some tests back in the days when everyone had the best of intentions and wore hornrimmed spectacles.

Evidently someone in my office took these findings rather literally. Both the carpet and the walls are the same tone of grey. Tilt your head through ninety degrees and everything looks pretty much the same

Thanks for letting me know anyway!

By: WordPress 2.7 Coltrane | Pinoy Teens

WordPress 2.7 Coltrane | Pinoy Teens — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:10:04 +0000

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By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:16:36 +0000

There’s still two color schemes (Classic and Fresh), so you don’t have to go with the purely grey style if you don’t want to. You can choose them from your profile.

WP 2.7’s administration interface may be the easiest thing I’ve ever used. The ability to get to nearly any page in one click is worth the upgrade alone.

By: Mike Padgett

Mike Padgett — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:03:02 +0000

I think what I love most about WordPress is the administration aspect of it.

Many commercial web-based products – not just blogging software – could learn a lot from WordPress in that way. A toxic mix of complexity and profound naffness still continues to sink perfectly good concepts and as a UX professional I have yet to use a read-write interface with such a distinctive character. Even that old screenshot comes across better than a lot of today’s “cutting edge”!

That said, I have not yet upgraded to 2.7 – I intend to do so in the next few days. I have concerns about the use of icons (of which I am more than a little suspicious) and this shift towards grey that seems to be happening, but I expect to be pleasantly surprised. The fact that I can have that expectation underlines that, for me at least, a WordPress upgrade can actually be an exciting experience.