Looks like WordPress is going through yet another backend redesign (flickr photo of it). It is now in WordPress 2.7-hemorrhage and has a brand new vertical-style navigation pane, as well as its legendary gray top-bar. See this post and this post for other people’s opinions. It seems that a lot of the pages are getting a redesign too, a notable one would be the recognizing of Dashboard and writing widgets (finally!!!). You can view this post, which lists a bunch of 2.7 features. I am looking forward to 2.7, but as I said, I still cannot stand this.

I just uploaded the latest nightly build of WordPress for the first time in 3 days, and they have completely redone the admin backend–AGAIN. I mean seriously, it is pretty gross. It deffinitely needs some fine tuning. Not sure I will get used to the reorginization. There is now a “Content” “tab” (if you can call it that), as well as the “Templates” and “Utilities” sections. Everything is now on the left side with no more stff on the top. A non-functional search bar is up there too–search the backend or site? There is an Inbox tab that is also non-functional. It will be interesting to see what these will become. I won’t deviate back to WP 2.6, but I hope they either get rid of this or fix its quirks fast. Not sure if I can get used to it. Plus no more Ozh’s drop down menu.