I recently upgraded my blogging software to WordPress 3.2 and I already know what my favorite new feature is: Full-screen editing mode! It’s absolutely great…at the click of a button, all the distractions and sidebars of the normal editing page disappear and it all fades away to a clean white blank slate. All you see are the words that you are currently typing. And another cool feature is that bringing your mouse pointer to the top of the window makes a toolbar appear that contains the most used tools and options. I should add a small complaint here, however…the one tool set that is missing from this editing menu is alignment. In order to change the text justification on a post, I have to edit fullscreen mode. (If someone can point me to a way to change this, I’d be grateful!) Once I’m done editing my masterpiece (haha, right!), I can exit the special mode to get back to normal, add tags and publish my post.
Now, technically, this new mode isn’t true full-screen because it doesn’t make the browser window fill your monitor; it only fills the browser window with your editing. I like this, though, because in general, I’m not a huge fan of true full-screen apps. They kind of defeat the point of having a huge monitor! (I mean, really, who wants to play bejeweled full-screen on a 27 inch monitor? Talk about your crazy long mouse movements!)
All in all, this new editing mode is great! It actually makes me want to write more blog posts — and I’ll take all the encouragement I can get in that department!