It’s still not 100% production ready, but it gets that much closer with every release. This version brings user selectable color schemes and a new way to set scalable/colorable custom icons. Very nice.

I get people’s apprehensions towards the automatic update feature coming in WordPress 3.7. Developers tend to be pretty skittish about turning over control of any part of their site to someone else. In the comments on this piece at WP Tavern, Nacin does a fantastic job breaking down why these calls for opting out of…

The first set of mockups reimagining the WordPress dashboard is up on Make/UI, and they look nice. I’m looking forward to using this. Just as soon as they make it into an actual plugin, that is.