For those who have been eagerly anticipating the release of Wordpress 2.7, it is getting closer and closer. For those of you dreading a new release, let me say I am with you. I finally got around to installing the latest build of Wordpress 2.7 and let’s just say this is not going to make a lot of people happy.

First off is the dashboard setup.

If you didn’t care for the way the screwed things up going from 2.3 to 2.5 let me say, you are going to hate these changes even more.  I am unsure what kind of mentality actually is going on here.  It is like they have brought in design consultants from the auto industry and Microsoft who said ’screw with the way it looks and the general layout of everything, if we confuse the user with something shiny and new we can blame any problems on operator errors’.  Thankfully Wordpress doesn’t charge for tech support or we would all be fucked.

They get an F for the new radical design.  Design shifts need to be gradual during the same version release.  This is the kind of thing you implement between version 2 and 3 or 2,3, and 4.  I will save the rest of the grade when they finally release it.  Unless you are a masochist I really suggest you avoid downloading it today.

Everyone needs to go have a look at their Technorati accounts today and make sure that their posts are getting indexed properly.  Because of some flaws and coding errors, and down right hacking by theme designers your Blog may be at risk.  Not only is Technorati not indexing, it can very well lead to your sight as being mark for spam on Yahoo and Google.

To see if you possibly aren’t being indexed or the spiders are just taking their sweet ass time getting to you try manually pinging  your account by entering a post specific url into the form at http://www.technorati.com/ping/  Give it an hour or so to get around to you and see if you get your pages added in, before bitching at tech support.  Also remember if you are using FireFox as a browser you should hit control f5 to reload the page and bypass the cache file when you are checking these accounts.

Check out Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed for further reading.  If you have WP 2.5 you can also find the link on your dashboard.