Well Bless my WordPress Admin. Wait Till You See This.
My devious little brain finally talked me into downloading the latest developer’s build of WordPress 2.5 the other day and loading it into my local Sandbox and oh, what they’ve done to my Admin!
I know there’s a few pics of the new (really unfinished) Dashboard running around on the Net and even a demo you can peruse through but I decided to post a couple-three pics of my own install of the upcoming new version of our favorite blogging software just to throw into the mix. The editor even has all the icons filled with the appropriate images now (the demo doesn’t–early version). Nothing fancy here, just a taste of what’s to come besides, I don’t know if the WordPress Trac police are out and about my area [glances apprehensively over shoulder].
First the login: (click on the following images for a larger version)
And the top of the new Dashboard (very unfinished yet). BTW, it’s going to be widgetized. Drag and drop your Dashboard!
And the new TinyMCE editor (Write Post view). The "Post Status" box on the right floats down the page as you scroll down.
Absolutely nothing is written in stone here as far as the new Admin UI is concerned, I just want to make that clear but this gives you a good idea where they’re headed with it. In some ways it appeals and in other ways it repels as far as I’m concerned but as I’ve heard deep within the dungeons of the WordPress developers–it’s only 10 to 20 percent finished so far. It ought to be interesting indeed to see where they go with this.
I’ll be along with more pics and write ups as the builds improve. That is unless the developers threaten to take away my computer and ban me from the "Dev" for releasing inside information. 
And I’ll show you where to the best berry pickin’ is.
Tag along? Oh, now that one was bad! (I like it).