Tagged and Bagged: Wordpress
I’ve upgraded my CMS/Blogging software to the latest stable version, 2.6, which was released last night, a month ahead of schedule. It seems that most everything that I’ve done to upgrade hasn’t broken anything much, so we’ll see how it goes. The Digital Fingerprint plugin just wouldn’t activate, so I guess that’s the end of the old code for me. I’ll have to find a replacement. I’m going to try the ©copy plugin. We’ll see if I like it. I think that its the one most people who’s content comes to my feed reader use.
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While I don’t use WordPress now, I remember not being too enthused about updates as I rarely found any “wow” features. Has that changed at all now with 2.5 and above?
I upgraded multiple blogs with the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It did everything but reactivate the plugins at the end, so it wasn’t too bad at all. Beats using FTP by a long shot.
Version 2.6 still has some things I don’t like about it, but I imagine it’ll be even better when the .1 point release comes out to fix the Flash uploader and other small bugs.
@hari - hari, I’ve not had much chance to evaluate the experience yet, but the admin seems to be a bit faster than before. The front end doesn’t look any different for the reader. Some things that were moved around with the upgrade to 2.5 have been grouped a bit better. I do like the direction that things are taking. I must say that I didn’t completely like how the write page was rearranged with 2.5, but with 2.6, its a bit more like it should be. There is still room for improvement, of course. The Theme switcher page now has a lightbox preview, which you can see before selecting the theme, if your’e up switching the look, which is neat. That will be nice for tweaking a new one. If I can get out of this rut and write some more, I’ll have a better reply. RT has a nice response to that. He’s right. There are still things to improve.
I like the Turbo feature. Or did you see that? (Top right corner of the admin page.)
I had to add a few CSS cods to mine to work with the update. Like adding a class”alignleft” for example. Nothing serious.
The upload feature was improved.
The WYSIWYG editor got cleaned up. There were a lot of redundant buttons. (Image for example)
I’d love to add Google Gears to my computer at work, but I’d get fired for installing that kind of stuff. It’d be like installing Ruby or Cygwin. Guaranteed, I’d get a talking to.
Now who would ever be stupid enough to install Ruby at work?
@devin -
I’m sure that only well-meaning people who had a bigger vision of their company’s IT future would do that.
This post made me upgrade (I hadn’t seen my dashboard for quite a while)
Some things seem a little neater and the removed buttons make the write page easier to use. Still has a distance to go, but it’s definitely getting more usable….
Now, lets hope that the KDE project can do the same with version 4. A little improvement each time…
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