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WordPress: New Dashboard Design

WordPress.com (the free and official hosting provider of WordPress blogging software) have updated their administration/dashboard software. When I logged into my blog today, I was immediately taken by shock. It looked so much cleaner. The front page now displays statistics of your blogs in a more orderly fashion, and is overly satisfying.

WordPress Dashboard’s New Look
WordPress Dashboard Update  WordPress Dashboard Update

    

WYSIWYG Editor – Almost every page has been improved in some way. One of the neatest new upgrades, as far as old features being improved goes, is the WYSIWYG editor. The new one doesn’t mess with the HTML code, and does a great job of doing, basically, what you want it to do. You can now add media (video, images, songs) quickly.

Friendlier visual post editor — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.

WYSIWYG Editor’s New Look
WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Update  WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Update

     

Gallery – In addition to this, a new code, [*gallery] (without the *), will place all of your images into a clickable gallery with caption displays. As the official update says:

Built-in galleries — when you take advantage of multi-file upload to upload a bunch of photos, we have a new shortcode that lets you to easily embed galleries by just putting [ gallery] (without the space) in your post. It’ll display all your thumbnails and captions and each will link each to a page where people can comment on the individual photos.

Besides the obvious [*gallery] code, there are a few secrets to it as shown here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode

Example of Gallery:

      

     

All in all, this was quite a warm welcome to an already amazing blog host. If you haven’t already, take a look at WordPress’s new features. (obviously, this requires an account, as you have to log in to reach the dashboard)

You can read the official post here.

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