Over the summer WordPress 2.5 and a prototype called Crazyhorse underwent third-party usability testing, which led to the design changes that will be coming in 2.7. Half of the test participants were wordpress.com users just like you! If you’re interested in the process behind the testing or want to read the report, head on over to the development blog and read all about it.
Testing 1, 2, 3
October 30, 2008 · Updated on March 6, 2025 · 1 min read
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Cool.
looks awesome, can’t wait.
Awesome!
kool, i shall, lol
x
i hope it will be percebtibly different from current version
2.7 is a complete redesign with a new navigation structure, new layout and all new features.
Looking forward to the new release!
I’m ready!
Felicitaciones
Awsome!
Tom.
that is great !!!
bring it on!
maybe this explains the odd links coming in too–i was thinking it was early for trick or treat–wasn’t sure whether it was a trick or a treat!
There wouldn’t have been any strange link stuff going on as a result of our testing or the 2.7 redesign, since it has not yet been ported to wordpress.com. It’s still being beta tested by people with self-hosting wordpress.org blogs.
I’ve been looking forward to this.
Neatest invention since toilet paper on a roll.
i cant wait til 2.7 comes out!
Looking forward to it 🙂
WordPress is the best!
Thanks for that.
testing testing…
(^_^)v
cool cant wait
Cool!
WP Rocks…!!! can’t wait till 2.7…
hehe that’s the name of my blog, just that it is in spanish. Thank you guys, you’re the best
look really good. well done wordpress
Cool!!!
¡Muy bien!
OMG!!! u rocks 😀
how great it is
Hey thanks!
wow Great
that’s pretty awesome, well done again
get ready
So looking forward to this one 🙂
Wow, it’s nice to see you guys at last leave the design to the professionals 😉
(no offense to the people who designed 2.5 interface)
That rox!! : )
great!
Can’t wait till 2.7!!!!
When I get real old, my children will be using WordPress 5.43, and they’ll have a multi-blog network, each blog representing a piece of their personality, and representations of their ego and id. They will combine into a different interface of Facebook, where everyone can define their friends by befriending particular personalities, throwing away the sum of the person at will.
And, one of my sons will come up to me and show me a video of neo-plode rock, which is a combination of 60’s music, 90’s R&B, Bjork ethereal-like backgrounds, with a lot of reverb’d cowbells and whistles and audio snippets of game show melodies in the 20th century. He will show me his ego WordPress avatar: XavierYY2012, and show me his Adobe Community Cloud widget.
I will be unsurprisingly confused, and will remark, ” Back when I was your age, we only had WordPress 2.7, and I had to change theme settings through a notepad editor.”
And he will reply,” You mean, you didn’t have uni-world-css bits? Wow Dad, you were living in the stone age.”
To The Future of WordPress!
very cool, I’ll be waiting 🙂
Good to know.
Finally a great software with a good interface.
Actually the only drawback wordpress had was that it had poor admin interface, now after the launch of new dashboard i think it will be a overall very good software.
My 4.5/5.
Please, wait… 😦 I want it…
Veryyy goodddd
Bring it on
Great! I’m loving the new look.
bellissimo
mm, lets wait for 2.7.., great work!
great work!
nice
This seems fun! thanks wordpress 😉
Your’e on the go all the time, Jane. Thanks for the info.
good, work
Hello Jane,
Thank you very much for this report. It is always interesting to see reports with scientific approach to produce result.
I wonder how would these results differ if testers would be presented with different color scheme. Let’s say that instead of white-blue color scheme interface would use orange color for buttons, bright green for menus, etc.
What I’m going to is to shed some light onto the way blog readers read the blogs and how theme affects the way they concentrate on the content. This will give a lot of knowledge to theme developers, …
Thank you very much again.
There are many excellent books out there on color theory, the use of color in web design, and the effects of color cues on usability, which would be a good resource for theme developers.
Thanks! Good going! Nice
Thank you very much for this report
crazyhorse, love it 🙂
happy new year. 😀
very cool, I’ll be waiting..
This sounds really cool.
Can’t wait!
WP 2.7 where are you…… cant wait
Lookin forward to 2.7, but will we have a feature to have the 2.6 look? I still like it, cos I saw the wireframes and still aren’t sure
Sorry, the 2.6 design will be going away on wordpress.com when we upgrade to 2.7 in November.
I am All 🙂 SmiLes 🙂
nice guys, go on, good work am looking forward
Sounds cool!
yeah great 😀
Awesome, more advancements for wordpress, in a few years, they’ll know what you’re gonna type, and the post will already be made 😆
@Person1233: Lol. That is my kind of humour. 🙂
Looks great 🙂
Magnificent! I can’t wait for it. 🙂
¿When more detailed statistics? visitors’ Net, visitors’ city, etc?
The stats module is undergoing its own revision currently and will hopefully be out by the end of the year.
very sharp and informative as usual, and happy november everyone!
WP rocks..I am ready
owh yeahhh!!!
Good post writing make lighting in the brain.
Looks great. Cool!
I’am ready 🙂
While the new interface looks nice, it’s just that – interface. Personally, I would prefer that more effort was spent on squashing bugs, improving compatibility with web standards, streamlining the publishing process – and integrating the cache into the main product than all this eye candy.
While you may consider it “just an interface,” we’ve found that the interface is hugely involved in streamlining the publishing process. The interface update for 2.7 is also coupled with many new features to give users more control over their publishing environment. The design is a relatively small part of the development effort going into 2.7, which includes quite a number of back end features to improve performance.
Waiting for it, Great
Brilliant. ^-^
Looks good
Oh no, just as I get used to the old version!
kool. love it.
Generic comment of approval! LOL
another new one!
Awesome ^^
I can’t wait! Man, wordpress keeps rolling out the features!
Superfantastic
That’s another good news 🙂
Really looking forward to it!
this is very cool. Nice post
when it released ?
We’re currently in beta testing, and hope to bring 2.7 to wordpress.com sometime during the month of November.
top of the line
It is one step further and certainly very important
Thats good!
COOL!!!!!
awesome! Thanks!!
COOL can’t wait!
its cool….waiting for it…
Cool…
sounds good!
cool!
I don’t know how you guys keep it up. Just keep up keeping it up. I don’t know where I’d be without my weblogsite.