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WordPress 2.7 Available for Download

written by John Chow on December 11, 2008

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The latest version of WordPress, codenamed “Coltrane,” is available for download. This is a major update with new everything. From the top down, the WordPress developers have listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in any previous versions.

As with all new major releases, the question is, “Should I upgrade now or wait for version 2.7.1?” With all the major improvements version 2.7 brings to the table, I highly recommend everyone upgrade to it. The new interface is awesome and fully customizable. My upgrade went super smooth and so far, all plugins are working fine.

Below are a couple of videos. The top one was made by me right after upgrading to WordPress 2.7. I show some of the new feature and highlight the new integration with Google Gears. If you don’t know what Gears is, watch the video and be prepared to get excited. The second video is from WordPress and shows all the new features you’ll find in WordPress 2.7.

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Yeah, I like the update, but it will be interesting to see what they fix for the 2.7.1 version.

2.7 is by far one of the best updates so far .. love what they have done with the dashboard

One question to all who read this:
Is there anyone who came to know about Wordpress 2.7 from this blog post..?

I dont know what should I blog about. When 2.7 was release everyone blogged about it and I didnt. I thought everyone out there would have already known about it. If everyone think like me, will anyone know about 2.7..?

Confusing...?

Your video is good testimony to wordpress 2.7.

Very nice. Matt is in the next year on the wordcamp in germany. And Im on the camp too, so I can give him some other good ideas for wordpress... haha ;-)

Nice... Wordpress just keeps getting better and better.

Looks fantastic! My backups finished last night so I'll be updating anytime now!

What an awesome update! I am very pleased. I was actually helping a friend get going on wordpress.com and told him his interface was different. Had no idea I would soon have the same thing!

Absolutely amazing, but I will be holding off for the moment on some of my high traffic sites. It seems (although) not true, that the trend has been a new version almost every other week.
WP still amazes me and is an awesome product - Thanks for the videos!

We highly think of your recommnding. Sure upgrade.

I just upgraded one of my WP Blogs and everything went smoothly. I actually hate the new interface however! I think they tried to pack too many features onto one page. I hope they partially revert back to the old layout in 2.7.1...

Just upgraded to 2.7 and everything went smoothly.i like the looks of the ACP.

I'm usually a bit hesitant on upgrading anything if I am fine with the way it is currently working. However, coltrane looks smooth and easy to use...time to upgrade.

Wordpress rocks! I installed WP2.7 two days ago.All my plugins are still working.

hard work from wordpress team....... thanks for great resul, more better wordpress

Update: can't edit text.link.ads plugin in widget box,or add a new one,i'm sure that i'm not the only one :D i hope.

I see a lot of people like it,but i have problems with text ads,stupid web 2.0 design, i liked previous version better,clean fast.

Wow, I'm absolutely loving Wordpress 2.7 so far - easily the best update they've ever made.

Also nice that it has a lot of important features out of the box so I don't have to install as many plugins.

just finish upgrading to wordpress 2.7..

Waiting for fantastico deluxe for upgrading to wp 2.7

Updated a long while ago since the Betas. I still have a problem with jQuery timeout. Must be a plugin.

I like WordPress 2.7. I upgraded 3 of my blogs without a problem.

I just finished upgrading, and everything went smooth. No problems.

It is really a great news..i have upgraded my love blog to Wordpress 2.7.....the dashboard admin panel is simply fantastic....all the plugin and theme is working fine....

I am happy and love wordpress so much...

WordPress 2.7 is great

It looks pretty nice.. but I`m still not switching to it. I logged in on one of my older blogs on wordpress.com yesterday and noticed the new dashboard which is pretty confusing at a first glance.

I just updated all my blogs, the plugins seem to work just fine, and the themes are working fine. Or at least with the themes i'm using, real nice upgrade.

It looks awesome. Hope to work all plugins

I have updated my wp with new version! I have to say that it works and looks just great!
All installed plug-ins works for me too!

I upgraded a couple days ago with the release candidate and it is really awesome. I had no problems.

I'd recently heard that the new 2.7 version was not a stable version and was still in its beta. so it is okay right now to do the update?

John you just went ahead and upgrade? There won't be any problem right?

these updates look pretty cool, i want to upgrade, but lazy at the thought of maybe having to reconfigure some things here and there.

Just updated using auto updater plugin worked perfect with all the plugin's I have really like the new layout & look of 2.7

Having slight problems getting the dashboard to display properly. and some plugins don't like the new dashboard at all.

Still, the new interface is great.

Kenneth

I'm too lazy to download and upgrade my wordpress blog..
HUhuhuhuhu...
Too fast.

Improvise! I love it. The google gears could be helpful, wish we had that back in the old dial-up days. Some remote areas, we still could use it.

yours video is a nice addition to the wordpress one..

Good work.. I love 2.7

Updating my blogs tonight, I've had RC1 installed on a test server and love it. Thanks for the heads-up, John on the release. This is sure to make lives much, much easier.

The new Wordpress rocks!

It sure does!

This new wordpress has a new and awesome GUI

I updated most of my blogs yesterday... this is a great new WP!

Great I'm going to have to upgrade ASAP then. Thanks for the heads up John.

Chad Van Norman

I read a lot of reviews on this version and most weren't sure when exactly it was going to be released for download. Glad to hear it is, it was much anticipated by the bloggers ;-)

just upgraded.... WordPress 2.7 looks awesome ...

how come i also have 259 files to download ?

Maybe those are the Google Gears files.

Just installed the newest version and I see a big difference between this one and the previous ones.

What tickles me is the fact that they are releasing a newer version almost once in 10 days :-)

Thanks

Olgi

Just went to install gears and it looks like it doesn't support the Opera browser. As my default browser, that's pretty crap on Google/WordPress' part. :(

Jamie

The neat thing about Google Gears is that you don't have to install it at all with Google Chrome, it comes built in so the only thing you have to do is enable it in your WordPress blog. Not sure why Google Gears doesn't support Opera though, that is strange.