I upgraded my installation of WordPress to 2.7 today at the behest of WordPress 2.6 and I am enjoying all of the newest little features of the app. I am not sure if WordPress felt it was in need of a face lift or if it just needed to feel the excitement of youth again, but this is a mid-life crisis I can see having a lasting consequence.

When you log in to the new admin panel the first thing you notice is the change of color and scenery. Gone are the beautiful contrasting blues and oranges with big lettered phrases and invitations. Gone is the horizontal navigation bar with all the easy to reach features of the dashboard.

Now what used to be a pretty interface is a nice monochromatic splash of what TV used to look like in the 50′s. Of course, this gray on gray action does offer a lot of whiz-bang, but looks very gray. Did I mention it is gray?

It’s all good though, because now I can move a box here or there that I did not want there or here before. And I also have these outrageous gray outlined icons in my admin lists as well, which makes the already prominent gray just a little more gray.

I suppose I shouldn’t be too picky, seeing as I only paid $0.00 for the entire application. But it would seem to me that if you are going to improve something that you would shoot to improve it. Yes, WP2.7 works very well, is pretty compact in terms of squashing everything into a single page and uses some cool, three year old Javascripts to make things flashy. But I am not sure that makes WP2.7 that much better than WP2.6.

So I am undecided for the time being. I am sure that I will come around to the newest version of WordPress. I did when WP2.0 came out. It took a while, but I did come around. I am just hoping that at some point the WP development team will decide to make admin themes a part of WordPress. If I was able to make my own admin theme or find one on the internet, well, then I would be utterly happy about this update.

Until then, I think I will go practice my Eeyore voice and ponder when the sun will be coming out again.