I’ve started using wordpress just few months back (may be when wordpress 2.5 got released) and I like this interface of Wordpress. It’s very user friendly and interactive.

While typing on the older version, you can hit “save and continue editing” and stay on the same screen so you can just continue typing. Arranging the widgets is much faster and simpler with less navigation required. If you change your mind about what goes in the left sidebar and what goes in the right one, you just switch them around. On the new version you have to remove them all from one sidebar, save, view the other sidebar, and put your widgets back. And maybe re-fill the fields as well!

Anyway, maybe I’m missing something. But I like the other interface better …

for the default theme it would have been far better to keep with the old colours or something with a bit more variation.

I use the secondary admin theme which i find far more easy to use.

Dave.

BTW, if you get a moment, would you comment on my blog? http://www.willsherwood.com

I just made the upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.5. Looks that everything went smoothly.

A few thoughts on the new admin interface:

I’ll cite one of the commenters above:

I hope that the designers and coders can integrate a function where users have the option to place the aforementioned tools back to the right column… or a plugin. Thank you.

Yes, this is one of my main concerns, too! And Id’ like to see such a function/option:)

I am using WP since 2.0.5, for more than a year. I liked in the ‘Write’ page particularly two things:

1) First, that almost everything of importance, related to writing a post (post slug; post category; post date & hour; allow/disallow comments & pings; etc.) was nicely located in the sidebar. This saves screen estate and it’s very useful for you to be able to edit all related info to the blog post you write, alongside the text field of the post itself.

2) Ability to re-arrange and close/open boxes in the sidebar.

Now: 1) Almost everything related to post is located below the text field, and also labels became very big (which is not useful at all!), this also leads to almost empty sidebar (why?), and 2) now I can’t anymore re-arrange the boxes…

So after making the upgrade, I’ve lost one of the things I liked the most, in the ‘Write’ page of WP 2.0-2.1-2.2-2.3.

I am not that good in PHP, so I cannot invent a way of moving some of this stuff below the textfield back to the right side column. But I believe, a lot of WP users will be more than happy to be able again to have the boxes at the right, alongside the text field…

Thanks for listening to my suggestion… and sorry for not-that-perfect-language:)

PS OK, at least, I will be fine, if documentation on how we can move Categories, Tags back to the right, could be written:) I’ll then struggle for myself trying to do it, maybe via a new plugin or something..:)