You’ve probably gotten tired of hearing about it from us, but the day has finally come and the new dashboard is finally here. It’s now immediately available to everyone on WordPress.com.
Change is always tricky, but pretty much everyone who has already switched to the new design and layout (that we affectionately call Crazyhorse) prefers it after a day or two of using it.
Why is that? Well aesthetics are a matter of taste, and you might like or dislike the new look, but speed is not.
A big focus of this redesign was making everything faster. It loads faster. It’s faster for you to navigate. And nearly every possible task in WordPress now takes fewer clicks than it used to.
This means we can get out of your way and you can focus on what matters: your writing, your comments, your readers, your blog.
So take a few minutes to explore around, there are a ton of new features for you. Try rearranging your dashboard, or your write page. Click the arrows in the menu to expand modules and navigate faster. Go to your profile and turn on keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation. Poke and prod! 🙂
For those following along at home, this new dashboard is going to be available as the 2.7 release on WordPress.org sometime next week. But because we update things so frequently here on WordPress.com, version numbers don’t apply as much.
Support is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you have any problems, and as always completely free. (Give us a little extra time to reply though, we’ll probably get a lot of folks contacting us.)
Love, Matt and the tireless WP team
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Loving it bro! I still can’t believe that all of this is still free. Are there going to be subscription fees or mandatory ads down the line? Do you guys get paid?
WP.com is free free free! We get paid from ads and when you buy upgrades on your blog, like a custom domain or CSS.
It looks great. It took me a minute though, but it is slightly cooler than the old dashboard. Thanks guys.
Simple. Easy to use. Good job!
This is amazing but I like the previous one also. But changes are necessary. Congrats for a new dashboard and its seems very user friendly too.
Love it.
I love the new layout.. but can we get a we bit of a warning next time? I nearly had a heart attack when I logged it and thought that everything was broken!
Really? We put up a warning post 2 days in advance, plus several posts over the past few weeks with previews, etc. in order to prevent anyone from being shocked. If you didn’t see the notices on your dashboard, you should contact support so they can investigate. Of course, if the notices appeared but you just didn’t click through to read them, there’s not much we can do about that. 🙂
I guess it will take a little getting used to. I am still a bit lost.
1) Did you guys forget to put the “return to site” button?
2) It is a bit confusing, I almost posted a page instead of a post.
3) Also was a bit confused about which blog I was on (I have several blogs)
4) The comments section is fantastic
As always–standard statement I LOVE WORDPRESS, I LOVE WORDPRESS
Love it….!!….And this one really rocks hard….!!…3 cheers….!!
Great work guys! I love it!
It’s so great it only took me 12 tries to upload 1 photograph. Faaaantastic.
Thanks WordPress! The new interface is beautiful!!! 😀
Very good design in the new dashboard….
every links is arranged in good order………….GREAT !!!
this is amazing, surprise!
simple but powerful, full content!
i love the structure, the color and the icons
surprise!! very nice, i love it. Thanks!
I love it! This is such an easy layout, very user-friendly, and everything is right at your fingertips.
Thanks!
Most excellent design. Thanks Matt and the WordPress team. You guys are awesome.
It’s neat and easy on the eye. Expandable, retractable and configurable is great. And it is faster, just got to find my way around again. It looks like a job well done.
One question; what happened to the “View All” option on stats? I remember two options, the default and the “all” which gave more info.
Really nice,
Thanks dude
wow.. awesome…
but… how about giving user the color choices…
thanks
LOVE IT!!! It took a couple of minutes to get use to it, but would not go back to the old version now.
GREAT Job!!! I second- Can we have some more themes? and the option of adding Amazon Showcase/ Shelfari?
i really like the new ver. simpler to use and better organized. thanks….
I miss the view button, I probably could use to the rest — it is organized, however it seems very busy for one page — But I will settled for view button again.
One more voice for AWE-some!
an awesome updates, I’m loving it so much.
like as tools options, “press this” features – I think on “edit-link-categories.php” – should be re-enable this java codes (given below) which helping so much to bookmark.
javascript:void(linkmanpopup=window.open(‘http://example.wordpress.com/wp-admin/link-add.php?action=popup&linkurl=’+escape(location.href)+’&name=’+escape(document.title),’LinkManager’,’scrollbars=yes,width=750,height=550,left=15,top=15,status=yes,resizable=yes’));linkmanpopup.focus();window.focus();linkmanpopup.focus();
Could you contact support about that?
Nice
Good!
Wow! It’s beautiful! Thanks so much, great job. 🙂
The New dashboard design looks great .. i love it
Sorry, I don’t like to knock others hard work– but I hate it. I, too, wish that everything in the technology world did not have to constantly change.
Gooooood..!
It’s not what was in my head (which would have been awesome, but I’m bias), but it’s functional and easier to navigate. I’ll give it the full test tomorrow when I post something, but I’m pleased thus far.
Awesome. WordPress is such a great example of continual improve. I’ve been blogging on WordPress for 3 years now, and am constantly amazed by the cool improvements that you keep making. WOOOHOOO
I not sure if I like it, maybe I amjust a creature of habit. I will try to keep an open mind and give it a good try.
Cool! Not in all matters but at least in this case faster is better.
wow!!!
i love it….
Love the drag and drop. That’s a great feature. Thanks.
Somethings are too wide to view on my laptop screen, however. The dashboard looks fine. But your post above cuts off on the right about 5 characters or so. Still working out the kinks?
it’s a surprise for me… very nice… thanks a lot for the gift…
Very nice and cool! If I had one complaint – on a 24″ monitor, it could use an option to fit everything in 3 columns, not 2. It just stretches everything.
Semplice, più facile da usare, tutto più visibile… meraviglioso.
Thank’s matt it’s cool and faster, i love quickpress more easy to post 😀
Supreme!
Change is always harder for some than others. People with difficulties now will not be able to imagine going back to the old design once they’ve used the new one for a couple of weeks.
A few aesthetic nitpicks, matters of preference:
– The polls icon is a bit of a blob and an eyesore. Why is it big red when everything else is small gray? Maybe because otherwise it just looks like a blob. Indeed, what is it exactly? A radio button, a jacket button, a nautilus shell? I have high hopes that one day it too will mature into a beautiful, seamlessly integrated icon.
– The two W icons at top left, one in the permabar and one next to the blog name, are overkill. Being so close to each other, they clash. There’s no danger of us not knowing we’re on your site! If you insist on having both — and there’s no doubt that it’s nice to have something to the left of the blog title — I’d be tempted to make the icon even more subtle, as if the features are bas relief of the same material. Same color, but slightly embossed. Or something like that.
– In comments “right now” on the dashboard, I would prefer icons for approved, pending, and spam instead of the primary colors, which really depart from the rest of the design (though they’re somewhat in cahoots with the poll icon). At first glance, it also doesn’t look like the break-down into these categories relates to the total comment count. The font sizes are the same, no divider, etc. Everything else in the right now box is its own entity. It would make more sense to the user to see the comment statuses and subtotals in smaller font, aligned further right than the total comments, or whatever.
Trifling details. Overall, an excellent step in the evolution of WordPress!
very attractive! well done. i like it
I just love it!! Thanks heaps WordPress! <333
I like it. Thank u people)
FANTASTIC!!
Very beautiful, thank you very much!
Thanks a lot!!! I really appreciate that I can now reply to comments that easy and quick!! AWESOME!! 😀
Fantastic!
Very nice job! Congrats, it’s better then ever blogging here now! It’s so fast I can’t believe it and I love the new look and feel.
Giving us layout options is icing on the cake…
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
Great stuff, hardworking WordPresss team! 🙂 So when are you guys gonna be filthy-rich icons in the Ivy league of Bill Gates and the rest of the e-biz multi-millionnaires, eh? 😉
Really well executed change, it is very much appreciated the way you have invested in the research, design and implementation. I think this is one of the best upgrades I have seen from any website. Kudos to the company and everyone involved.
Beautiful.
It’s simply amazing. WordPress was and will be the best service like this! Thanks for your work
(now i’m just praying for some new themes 😉 )
Is it possible to switch to the old dashboard design? I like it simple back then.
Nope.
it’s great, cleaner and more functional… got used to it very quickly.
a very hight design! Thanks U
I find it more pleasant to use.. Great job!
I like it. Especially the Stats section.
Looks like you guys really enjoy what you are doing 🙂
I’m sorry… I hate it! It’s smaller, more complicated and I don’t like to type my posts on this new design. I was very fond of the old one… isn’t it possible to keep it? I find this design quite… childish actually! I’m sorry because I know it’s a lot of work for you guys, and it’s always a good thing to update your way of working, but…
My first impression of 2.7 wordpress, it blows away the previous version! Outstanding! It’s not hard at all to get acclimated to the new version. You guys and gals did a great job in putting together a great foundation for the next five years! Thank you!
Liking it 🙂
two thumbs for the intuitive dashboard.
Not liking it at all! The previous design seemed cleaner and a lot more intuative. This seems very cluttered. I can’t really see any usability benefits from this new design at all. I appreciate you guys have put a lot of effort in but…
Excellent. Well done guys. It has a good look about it and you could immediately tell that a lot of hard work and sleepless nights had gone into this redesign.
Well done guys.
I’m Lovin’ It!! thanks! 🙂
Very nice, even better organized, thanks!!!
I can’t even find the visit site button. It’s insane. I understand the motivation to make things faster, but how do I view my own blog!
It looks so NEAT. much nicer than before; thank you very much.
wow… the new wordpress is great! like a lot more than the old one!much easier to use the board!
great job!
It looks so NEAT. sort of a more professional/efficient look. much nicer than before; thank you very much.
good job! and i noticed things were quicker.
btw… i use Firefox 2 and it works fine
I like it so far, it will need getting used though 🙂
WordPress is getting better and I’m getting bored again having the same UI on more than 5 blogs that I run.
Can you add more colors soon? 😀
I’m really getting confused and almost published a post on a wrong blog. Lol
thanks that’s great…
the new design is awesome! thankyou!
What is the use of “reply” to comment? Is there going to be comment thread support?
Yes, threaded comments will be available soon, once themes have been upgraded to support it.
I love it! It’s awesome!
very clean and organised. well done guys . it is a really good effort …and result
Nice design!.Beautiful and simply.
Don’t love it as well.
Where is the link to my homepage?
Don’t find it (-;
Love it! Love it! Love it!
I hate it. Last time you changed things I had problems uploading pics, now it takes so much time to go from one feature to another. The dashboard is filled with information you don’t need as the first thing to see, it takes time to scroll for ages, because half of the page is empty, such a waste of space. And the space I do need has become so small because all of the clutter on the right and left side instead of the clear and easy way at the top.
I actually like the new design. The only thing I dislike is the fact that they removed the “Visit Site” button! That was an incredibly easy and fast way to check updates you made on the blog. I sure think you should bring it back!
@wisdomjunkie – click on the blog name
Nice work. And if change scares people, just make sure they don’t look outside.
It’s so beautiful!!! I love it! Thanks!
I like it 😉
This new dashboard is a hundred times better than the previous one, wich I have to say I never liked. Comparing the loading times it’s like we have switched from a snowspeeder to the millenium falcon.
Please, don’t change it completely again in the next release.
Great Job!