I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and am trying out various things to see what changes have been made.

One thing I like right away is that it provides the option to automatically upgrade a plugin (instead of having to download the plugin and ftp it to the right directory). It works pretty much immediately which is much more convenient. I’d like to see a similar process created for themes - so that I could try out new themes without having to manually upload/download files. I’m using a theme that was created for a previous version of WordPress - so I imagine it will be time to upgrade to a different theme. I’ll be looking at the possibilities and hopefully the right thing will pop up.

I’ll have to get used to the new interface. It’s more colorful and in some ways seems ‘busier’ in its appearance. I liked the old simple blue color scheme - something others occasionally complained about. My gut instinct is that the interface will go through more (substantial) changes and tweaks before it’s in the right place. Still, the interface is new to me and as I get acclimated to it better I may find reasons to like what has been put together.

That’s all I have for now in response to the new version of WordPress.  I may have additional comments later.