Lately Wordpress creators decided to skip the release of Wordpress 2.4 which was due this February and instead planned to incorporate all of its features into the next release i.e. Wordpress 2.5. It is expected that Wordpress 2.5 will release somewhere in March but most of the bloggers are too restless to test out the new features.

To help bloggers overcome their emotions of curiosity, Chris Johnston has announced the availability of a public WordPress 2.5 Demo Site. The cool part is that it will host the most latest and up-to-date version of Wordpress 2.5 until its official release. This way developers and keen bloggers wouldn't have to setup the alpha and beta releases on their localhost to test all of the new features, they can just use the online demo site instead.

To login as admin you will need to enter the following information:

Login: admin
Password: demo

This is what the new Wordpress 2.5 looks like

The new Wordpress has a sky-blue/orange color scheme. If you login to the demo site, you will notice a rearrangement of widgets and menus and a little bit of new features.

Personally I did not like the new interface at all except for the Post Editor which is a bit modified and more user-friendly. The color scheme is worse than the previous one. Plus you will see a rearrangement of information menus which looks just senseless and unattractive.

I hope they make it better before they plan to release it finally because I simply love Wordpress and I don't want a reason not-to-upgrade.