Busy making new screenshots
Since the big changes in the admin panel in WordPress 2.5 and newer, I had to make quite a number of modification in the previously done chapters to reflect the new admin interface. Yes, I am among those that don’t like everything in the new adminstration panel… but I think we have to live with it for a while.
First I had to rewrite the description and functionality of the admin panels, according to the new changes, like the Media Library, the gallery, the location of different features and so on. Sometimes the most difficult thing is to remain neutral, not to comment how I feel about certain “not so wise” changes that were introduced in this version. Anyway, it is as it as and I have to describe what the new user will see and not to confuse them with references to older versions.
Luckily, I didn’t make too many screenshots of the admin panel in the previous WordPress releases. What I had was more for testing purposes: to see how will they fit into the page and how legible they would be. I also had chapters that I showed to computer users that were not familiar at all with WP, and those chapters also had screenshots. I have used the feedback given by my “test readers” to improve the content and to make sure that the text doesn’t come across as some kind of insider jargon - which might be a real danger if you spend a lot of time among WP users. I wanted to get feedback whether the book would deliver what my intention was: to lead an average computer user to understand what blogging with WordPress means.
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