I have a confession – I love WordPress. It’s just so cool. Anyway, I stay up with the changes by downloading them at http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/.
I don’t actually browse there and download the files with a web browser but I use Subversion which is a code control system for developers who are – developing systems and need a way to keep track of program code changes. Think of the tracking changes feature in Microsoft Word. Kind of like that but not exactly the same.
You can read about how I setup the newest WordPress stuff on my PC to test in my article Running and Reviewing WordPress 2.5-beta1. Although that article might be WordPress 2.5 beta 1 specific you can pretty much do the same for any version of WordPress. I set up a folder called WordPress27 as well as a database called WordPress27.
After I install Subversion, I download and install TortoiseSVN, a Subversion client for Windows.
What TortoiseSVN does is allow you to right-click on a folder where you want to download the latest code for WordPress by selecting the menu choice “SVN Update” after you’ve configured TortoiseSVN to look at http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/. TortoiseSVN will go out and download the changes from the last time you downloaded.
On to WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage. After updating the latest version below is a screen shot of what the dashboard looks like. They’ve changed things up for the better in my opinion by using a sidebar menu structure to navigate WordPress 2.7
First, here’s the screen shot of the version at the bottom of the Dashboard in WordPress 2.7. That’s how I got the title of this blog post. Kind of funny. I didn’t even know they called it that until I scrolled to the bottom and saw it.
The dashboard:
If you’re a WordPress user you’ll notice the sidebar menu as oppossed to the horizontal menu currently in WordPress. However, this is way, way early WordPress 2.7 and things might change drastically before it is final. So hold on, come back here to check out more new features and screen shots of WordPress 2.7. If you’d rather receive updates by email subscribe to my email updates.
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