New Wordpress.com Format. Is it a big improvement?

nbsp;Wordpress.com just released their new format for bloggers, and it hasn’t really impressed me with the new features. Here are some problems i think that are negative towards the new format.

1- The Tags, I really liked it when they just had the text box where you could just write the tags in. Although you can still do this, once you click add or press enter they are written onto theweb page with “X” beside them. This makes it pretty hard to copy and paste the tags to websites like Delicious or Digg.

2- Not allot of “Noticable” new features. They do have some new code abilities. What i would really have liked to see though would be the ability to add Adsense ads, and intigrate them with your online blog. Unfortunatly you can only do that with Wordpress.org. There are ways to put Ads in your posts but it is against Wordpress Terms of Use.

3- I cannot see the Word Count. I used this quite frequently when using their old platform, but now i can’t find it anywhere. I have this feeling its around but it is not inimmidiate view. It would be nice if they put a wordcount back where it was below the post text box.

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Now here are some improvements that i think are good for wordpress.

1) I like how we are able to edit the permalink to a certain extent. Its nice to be able to get rid of those dashes and all that extra crap. Its also nice that you are able to edit the title to a title that you feel better suits the topic of your post.

2) Eye Candy??? In my opinion it’s not a big improvment, but it definatly works. They have moved the Publish button to the rights side along with the save button. They have the option to look at your most used categories when categorizing your blog. It feels more fluent, and buttons aredefinatly more clear.

3)Dashboard- I really like how they intergrated a bit of everything including blog stats, comments, etc. I really like the flag that pops up when you have a new comment on one of your posts. This becomes very useful when trying to manage your wordpress site. Again on the Dashboard everything is very clear as to where you can find it.

Overall the new Wordpress.com is fine, i do think there are a few minor changes that would help in the overall improvement of the site like thewordcount. I cannot stress enough how important i felt that was. I would just adore wordpress if they would let me put Adsense on it. I think it would attract me towards publishing on wordpress more often. Not that i wouldn’t publish on Wordpress

Anyway just thought i would post my opinion on the new Wordpress.com. The site is definatly Good looking with lots of eye candy.

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BradleyBradwell

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