What’s the difference between wp 2.8 and 2.7? Here’s why wp 2.8 is different.

What I like about wp 2.8 is the Widget sidebar management. The old style sidebar widget is back. It’s now even better. See the following screenshot to be more clear (taken from my wordpress.com dashboard). Click to enlarge: By the way, this blog is still using wp 2.7 (want to upgrade soon).

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Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities for 2.8 will be widget management, theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. The rest of the development time will be taken up with bug tickets and additional features/enhancements from a prioritized list. To that end, we’ve posted a new survey for you to help us prioritize features for 2.8. The list pulls from the developers’ “2.7 leftovers” list as well as the most popular features from the Ideas forum. Just rank each feature and tell us your top pick (up to three). You also have the option of adding comments or additional suggestions, but this is not mandatory. For your response to count, you must rank all of the features in the list. The survey has only one page.

If you don’t feel satisfied with wordpress 2.7, make sure to let the team developers know by casting your votes any time this week, but as always the sooner the better. This survey will close at noon on December 31, 2008 UTC

For me, my wish list is only one: wp 2.3 widget management style should be back. And for this reason I haven’t upgraded to wp 2.7 (I’ve regretfully upgraded to 2.5 and still waiting for the good double-sidebar-widget management style up till now).