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- New admin panel since Wordpress 2.5 is more visually appealing with a light blue color but I am a little bias here since that color is almost the same as my web site’s
- The visual editor has media section with icons to add “image”, “video”, “audio” or any other “media”.

When any of those icons is clicked on a pop-up layer (not a new document window) opens and displays 3 tabs:
1) Choose file will let you:
* choose a file from your computer and upload it to your blog . Click on the “Choose Files to upload” button to see the file upload field appear
* or enter the URL of your image file (web address of your file e.g. http://www.saheltech.com/images/logo.gif” ) in the Image URL box
- * choose an option to define how your new image will be aligned with the rest of the content in your post (none, left, center or right)
* Once you are done, you can just click “Insert into Post” button to insert your image and resume editing your post

2) the “Gallery” tab switch to a window displaying thumbnails of pictures previously uploaded.
You can then click ”Show” to see each image in more details then decide whether to insert int your post or not

3) the “Media” tab as you might have suspected will show all the multimedia files (pictures, audio/video files) already uploaded and used or ready to be used in your post.

Two other tools I found particularly useful are to the “Toggle Fullscreen Mode” and “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink” icons on the very right hand-side of your visual editor toolbar.

Try’em and see for yourself.

I will be upgrading to wordpress 2.6 very soon. I am trying to keep up by jeez these guys at WORDPRESS are rolling fast lately.

That’s all for now folks!
Happy blogging!!

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