Try out WordPress 2.5 before it’s released

February 13, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

The next major release of WordPress is scheduled to come out next month, but you don’t have to wait that long to see it in action. Chris Johnston has put up a demo of the most current development version for people to play around with. Being that there is more than a month left, this is obviously a beta version and there will be changes and improvements made, but it looks like things are really starting to come together.

The most interesting aspect of the new version is the complete admin interface and design refresh. WP 2.5 is going to be a very different looking WordPress. I’m not completely won over by the color scheme (orange!?!), but I’m excited about the change and I think they can pull if off with (much) more polishing.

Besides the admin redesign, there seems to be improvements such as tag management, more intuitive media uploading/management and a reworked dashboard.

Go on over to the demo and try things out yourself. Chris says he will try to keep it up to date when new development versions are released, so it will interesting to watch as new features are added or polished as we get closer to the release date.