Tinkering with WordPress 2.5 RC1

I installed WordPress 2.5 RC1 over lunch and tinkered with it a bit. I am looking forward to seeing what other developers think about it. I have not come across any problems posting, widgetizing or editing it yet. I have a list of full sized screen shots below.

The only thing I have found that will likely drive me nuts is the fact that the delete link is right next to the SAVE/POST button.

The installation process has not changed. The login screen remains the same.

The Dashboard has been published before, but I re-capped it for my own use.

I noticed much change in the Post/Write page with some new tools for media (sound, video, etc.) and an extended tool bar with full screen mode and advanced Word-style buttons like pre-defined formats, special characters, full alignment (justify), undo, erase formatting, paste from Word and paste as plain text (Thank you WordPress!) and even more.

Posts/Write is the most used interface and I am looking forward to giving it a spin but I have not yet decided which blog I will update yet. I have 5 blogs and, as a Webmaster, maintain about 15 for others so I try to run a few instances of each stable release on my own blogs. But for now Wordpress 2.5 RC1 is in the Sandbox.

Another interface that has changed quite a big is the widgets page. I don’t have much to say about other than it looks good.