On October 17th, the Wordpress Development Team gave us a peak into the new features in the upcoming Wordpress 2.7; More specifically (for those who like to get right to the point), the new dashboard. And the new dashboard does look fantastic the Wordpress consensus has ruled, but if you thought the stats feature was a built-in feature for the new 2.7 release, you’re wrong. It turns out that what you were seeing is actually the Wordpress.com stats plugin. I myself sort of figured this wasn’t going to be incorporated into the 2.7 release or any release at all for that matter, but it’s obvious to see how one could have gotten confused.
But the latest post on the Wordpress Development Blog wasn’t all apologies. They talk about a few things they had forgotten to mention (features, not confusion) in their earlier post. One of the more nicer features (in my own personal opinion), is the ability to drag and drop your Dashboard Modules in order to get that aesthetic juxstaposition just right and send the Obsessive Compulsive into their own personal hell.
There are a couple of interesting things I would like to point out about this latest blog post. They noted their mantra, which I suppose was one of their fundamental thinkings going into this new release: “And since the mantra of 2.7 is to give the user control over his/her admin interface, we…“. I happen to find this to be of excellence; The way it should be. They also gave away a few things you might or probably will find in the Wordpress 2.8 release. Going back to the dashboard module configuration: “Modules also may be collapsed or expanded by clicking the title bar, allowing another level of screen customization. In 2.8, we also hope to make every single module configurable in terms of what content it displays…” — sweet. The inbox is gone, and I really have no idea what that even is/was, but they noted that it’s likely to return in a later version (seemingly sooner than later). And a bit about the recent comments: “This module, as in 2.6, displays the most recent comments. However, you now can moderate comments directly from this Dashboard module, including the new Comment Reply feature. For now it will show only the last x number of comments, as it does currently, though in 2.8 we hope to add more configurability to this, or roll it into the Inbox concept.“.
You can read the entire blog posting by clicking here to follow the article, and please folks, don’t give them too much hell about the stats thing. There are already plenty of Wordpress plugins, such as the one mistaken for a built-in feature, that can display those loathsome stats all over the place.
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