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Well I downloaded and installed WordPress 2.0 beta 1 (formerly known as WordPress 1.6). The following is a five minute review of it. I’ve just gone for a quick surf through the admin menus and given my impressions. I cannot guarantee I didn’t miss anything blatantly obvious, or obscure.

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Five Minutes with WordPress 2 beta 1

• Installation: Easy although had to manually create database and wp-config because of domain host write access problems

• First impression: Admin screens: Nice blues. Same menus

• First impression: blog site: Same Kubrick theme. No new themes yet

• Dashboard: No change

• Write: Image upload added. Visual redesign. The screenshot below shows the top half of the Write Post page.

• Manage: No change

• Links: No change

• Presentation: Themes display a preview. Added Current theme options menu which can change font colors, gradient colors(!) of header only

• Plugins: Added WP database backup plug and Akismet comment anti spam plugin

• Users: Visual redesign. Permission levels are now roles and are textual names (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber) etc) rather than numbers. Can set from Authors & Users

• Writing options: Use visual editor (not working in Safari or Opera 9 beta on my Mac. Firefox okay.)

• Permalinks options: 3 defaults to choose from plus custom

• Added Import menu. Imports RSS and Blogger

So there you have it. Not enough in there to justify a 2 upgrade. Here’s hoping below the surface are significant enhancements. Otherwise it really is WP1.6 as originally intended. But bear in mind, it was just a five minute review.