So I’ve finally installed WordPress 2.7 here on this blog and I’m loving some of the features.

I think all those who contributed to the UI deserve credit for the improvements. That said, there are still some useability issues which could be fixed with minor tweaks. For example, in the Posts, Links and Pages screens, although the “Add New” button appears in the left-hand menu, it does not appear in the actual screen on the right which would just make things quicker and easier.

I’d like to give a shout out to one person who I think developed one of the most import recent plugins, WordPress Automatic Upgrade. Made by Keith Dsouza, the plugin was retired in September when Keith got notice that WordPress would integrated the automatic upgrade feature in 2.7, which was a good decision on Automattic’s part but kudos to Keith for the original concept.

One thing that we still don’t see, which I think is a big void, is the ability to add custom meta data to the Links. If you can customize your posts so that you can add various types of custom data, why not to your links? With custom fields in your link edit screen, you could provide your blog/website readers with more information about people, organizations or websites in your blogroll, such as their email address, physical address (for businesses and charities), twitter ID and other social network and social bookmarking ID’s. This would allow you to take your blogroll to the level of a community directory. There is a temporary workaround for this which I’ll post about later.

Another thing – the option to make a post “stick” to the front page is great, but being able to define a date until which is sticks would be icing on the cake.