Yesterday, December 10th, WordPress 2.7 RC2 was released, and a day later, which is today, December 11th, the stable version of 2.7 is finally released. A month overdue from it's supposed release date, but the wait was well worth it. I have been following and testing the WordPress 2.7 since it's pre-beta days, and I became a first-hand witness to the evolution of 2.7's development. The transformation I witnessed was awesome, and I realize that I now regret not getting screenshots of each and every iteration that has become what it is today. The new administrative interface is more intuitive. The new features and functions the developers integrated is somewhat the answer of a typical users usual gripes. Here are some screenshots that I managed to get before and after WordPress 2.7 was released. [gallery link="file" columns="4"] In one word, spiffy. [caption id="attachment_774" align="aligncenter" width="734" caption="SPIFFEH!"] [/caption] Kudos to the WordPress Developers. This is truly one great milestone in the history of WordPress.

Here's another quick post of a screenshot of the new Admin interface of WordPress 2.7 (currently RC1). It has two color schemes, gray and blue. Below is the blue theme, obviously. Heh. Choosing one or the other sports their own icons from the recently concluded WordPress Project Icon. Final release is coming very, very soon.

Here's a quick post of a screenshot of the new dashboard of the upcoming and much-awaited WordPress 2.7. The icons, they are new. And well-designed. [caption id="attachment_740" align="aligncenter" width="157" caption="New Icons! Yay!"] [/caption] I can definitely smell WordPress 2.7 RC1 in the air. And the final release is coming real soon. So far, it's smelling very good.

Here's yet another screenshot of the new Dashboard of WordPress 2.7 (currently version Beta3-9791). And look, they used Verdana, my favorite font. [caption id="attachment_727" align="aligncenter" width="720" caption="Screen fonts FTW!"] [/caption]

Here's a quick post of a screenshot of the new Dashboard of WordPress 2.7 Beta 2. It's getting prettier everytime, but I think this is the last iteration of the aesthetics upgrade of the dash, that is, until they think of something else to change.