The eagerly anticipated 2.7 WordPress is just around the corner. Ryan Boren announced that feature freeze is scheduled for today. That means that the new version will be ready for release in early to mid November. The last official release date I heard was during Jane Wall’s presentation at WordCamp Portland and it was 11/10/08.  She stated that release would be 30 days after feature freeze so maybe 11/13/08.  Then again WordPress 2.5 was a couple of weeks late and WordPress 2.6 was weeks early so if you are a gambler, join a WordPress release pool!

All kidding aside, there are a lot of of usabililty changes being made to WordPress administration panel. You can see a rough draft of the new admin panel via the Wireframes recently released by Automaticc. Wireframes are basically layout of a web site before the art is added. It shows the new layout of the new administration panel. It will require a lot less scrolling and gives you the opportunity to customize the admin panel to a greater degree. You can put the components that YOU use where they are handy for you and stow away the components that you don’t need.

I will start working with the daily test builds tomorrow and posting here to keep you updated.

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