WordPress 2.7 overview
We had no time to get used to one WordPress as the next was released. Still it is rather good than bad. Let’s look at the new WordPress numbered 2.7.
I would like to draw your attention to Turbo button in Tools. The developers took care of the admin area cache using Google Gears. Google Gears is already in use in such Google services as Google Docs, Google Reader. The main objective of this technology is the use of this service offline, and synchronizing of the local version with online when there you are online again. It is easier to explain this way: when you are offline, you can use the services, and when you are online again, all the changes will be written into the service.
Unfortunately caching (with the help gears) it is not realized completely in WordPress 2.7, you can visit all those admin pages without the Internet which you visited online, but you can not create posts when you are offline.
So when you press the Turbo button, cache files are copied to the local computer, and (as authors say) admin panel starts to work faster. Super cache does not work completely in this new version of WordPress.
In WordPress 2.7 admin panel there is a button (««) which minimizes all the menu to icons. Thus the working area increases as much as possible. It is convenient when writing big posts.
Near to the blog name there is a button Page Options (on many pages), by pressing which the panel with editing the page options opens. So we can adjust the admin panel as it is convenient to us.
Installation of plug-ins is implemented fully In WordPress 2.7 through the web interface, i.e. through admin panel.
Some API for developers have appeared, such as API for comments, API for templates.
Now it is possible to answer comments through admin panel in WordPress 2.7. Also comments became tree-type so it is possible to answer not only the post, but also the other comments.
There will be no need in some plug-ins since the functionality will be realized in the engine itself, for example xml sitemaps blog generation, subscription to comments.
I would also like to say that with every new version, WordPress 2.7 engine and admin panel get more and more complicated, therefore it provides more charging to the server. Now it is necessary to look towards optimization and simplification of the engine. Many do not use new versions because of their complexity, and build their blogs at least on 2.3.3 version. Actually it is a very essential problem for many. By the way, WordPress 2.7 release will be on November 28th.