WordPress Three – Better for regular users.

We wrote about our favorite technical upgrade of WordPress 3.0 last week.  But what about our favorite update for the end user?

For Design Different’s clients, the favorite new feature will almost certainly be the streamlined user interface back-end.  Basically, the entire way the menu’s work has been dramatically improved.

For nearly 4 years now D2 has been providing a 3rd party plugin (actually two different plugins) to fix the problem of the complicated & clumsy WordPress back-end.  The backend is the part of WordPress you access when you want to post a new page, or change a plugin.  It’s the part of WP being used right now to write this post!

Using those plugins wasn’t a perfect solution, but it was the best way to keep our customers happy and make WordPress as user friendly as they needed it to be.

But it caused problems and confusions occasionally.

For example, we had a former client email us last year and say,

“I learned how to use WordPress when you built our website, but then I tried to help someone else manage their WordPress website and it was way too complicated!  Why were their plugins and stuff hidden and hard to fix?”

With WP 3.0 there’s no need to use those extra plugins!  So we won’t ever get one of those emails again!

(PS- we helped that client install the same useful plugins on her friend’s website for free… )

In the short run this change means we’re going to have to develop new training materials for new clients– but in the long run it’s going to help everyone that there be only one system (the normal one).

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