I find it only fair that since I reviewed WordPress 2.5 (and didn’t really love the upgrade), I would take the time to give a quick review of 2.7.

Bottom line: I’m impressed.

I’ve been using WP 2.7 since the day it came out on over a half-dozen blogs and I am still getting used to it, but I really like the direction that it is going in.

Among the features I appreciate the most are being able to install (and search for) plugins directly from your plugin page, the ability to customize what nearly every back-end page is set up like, and I’m a big fan of the overall look and feel.

Sure, I still have issues looking to the wrong part of the screen, expecting a feature to be where it used to be, but as long as they don’t rearrange the format with each upgrade, I’ll get over that.

The only real issue I have (and it may be a problem on my end somehow) is that on multiple occasions, I’ve had the Publish and/or Save Draft buttons stop working. If I’ve been working on one post for quite some time, I’ll lose the ability to publish or save. That’s a big one. Usually I have to open the post up in another tab, see if it’s updated, cut and past if it’s not, and then publish or save from the new tab. That’s a pain in the ass.

Again, the problem could be with my browser or computer, but I have a hunch that it is a bug in WP 2.7.

Nevertheless, I’m pleased with the direction that WordPress is going in and I rate WP 2.7 head-and-shoulders above WP 2.5.