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Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Nestor — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:35:02 -0000

Looks like they killed the file manager, not that I used it much but occasionally it came in useful rather than open a separate FTP and text editor for a small change. So much for "trusting the user"

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

ADMIn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:34:39 -0000

You should saw something about the bug in the rewrite rules, which handicapped thousand of blogs disabling the showing of static pages not using the default permalink structure. Several of my wordpress based websites started showing 404 on the pages, after upgrading to 2.5, while correctly showing posts. Hopefully, this issue will be fixed in wordpress 2.5.1

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

cpng — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:00:53 -0000

we found a nice feature too...scheduled publishing

http://creepingsharia.wordp...

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Epic Alex :: Web Design — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:33 -0000

After reading Joost de Valk's post on the new admin interface for plugins, I wrote my own guide to help people upgrade their plugins to the new style, check it out here:
http://epicalex.com/wordpre...
Alex

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

jakpo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:57:46 -0000

One thing I do not like in WP 2.5 is the "Publish" button is located on the right side bar. After you've finished writing your post and selected the categories (somewhere at the bottom), then, you have to scroll back up to click "Publish".... which I think, is not that user friendly.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Robert — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:35:06 -0000

After upgrading to 2.5, I got problem doing many things. I was prompted with messages "You do not have permission to do that." For example, during auto-save, creating a custom field, approving a comment individually.

Any ideas why does this happen?
Thanks,
Robert

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Aziz — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:07:52 -0000

I guess I will like the new widget handling system as my theme has around 8 sidebars and it gets a little difficult dragging the widgets to a sidebar on the top of the page.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Travis — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:11:07 -0000

It does have one small bug in it related to image uploads. The new version takes advantage of some Java and Flash to run the image uploader that doesnâ€™t place nice with Internet Explorer 7.

Here's the fix: http://www.icastlimited.com...

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Luke — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:05:25 -0000

Nice review. Looks like some pretty nifty new features I'll have to explore. I installed the new version today, and it sure is nice looking.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Childrens Book Review — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:23:54 -0000

Thanks a lot for saving me the effort of trawling through the new release.
I have never understood why most plugin setttings didn't appear in the plug in manager. I agree that is would make more sense if they all did.

As for the Visual Editor, I am not sure if I am ready to trust that SOB yet.

Best Wishes

Rob

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

steve — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:28:04 -0000

I just got WordPress installed after much confusion, I'm nearly code illiterate, and now I have to do an even more complicated upgrade. Thanks for your article though, it's made the task seem less daunting.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Chris Guthrie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:09:07 -0000

Thanks for the heads up. Great list.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Sangesh — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:45:31 -0000

This is good news. I'm ready to upgrade, but do I have to backup my previous data before upgrading?

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Bill — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:56:57 -0000

Will this affect my current theme (K2)?

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

hanlie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:52:07 -0000

Is there a very simple, very detailed guide to installing this upgrade? I am too scared as yet to attempt it.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Ken — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:20:11 -0000

Just rolled to it tonight. While I haven't ran through the entire back-end interface, the upgrade was quite painless and all of the features seem very straight-forward.

Great write-up!

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Karl Staib - Your Work Happine — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:49:41 -0000

Wow! I'm impressed with the depth of the critique. I'll be back to check in tomorrow when I have more energy to digest it all.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

wPlop — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:20:48 -0000

I used Wordpress Auto Update to upgrade to this version and everything went well. The admin menu will take some time getting used to, but overall I like it. One of the big pluses for me is that now the WYSIWYG editor is supposed to not mess up code, such as youtube embeds.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Stu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:38:54 -0000

Aaron,

Thankyou for the post. There are a few Wordpress 2.5 ones around, and yours is pretty comprehensive. I like your writing style as well.

Question: I heard/read about the inbuilt Gravatar support in 2.5. Any experience yet with it? I would imagine it just fits right in.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

JamieO — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:01:36 -0000

Is there a way to disable the auto-plugin-upgrade feature? I have a couple of plugins which I have self-customized for specific cases that I would hate to lose changes just because Wordpress thinks I want the latest and greatest.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:12:34 -0000

Awesome review, thanks!

For anyone searching for the now-deprecated file-based object caching, here's a plugin that re-implements that feature:

http://neosmart.net/blog/20...

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Pablo DiCiacco — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:05:17 -0000

I've been using/testing WP 2.5 for a while now and testing 2.5 plugin compatibility. Can you tell me, is the MyFtp plugin considered secure or not? I usually use WsFTP, but would be interested in your FTP over SSH dev updates.

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Sam — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:31:03 -0000

I've only been using WordPress for about 12 months, but it was just starting to feel its age, and lag behind a bit. Now I'm getting excited!

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Rachel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:52:56 -0000

How exciting, it sounds like a really good update!

Re: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Alex — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:08:21 -0000

Aaron, thanks for the detailed write-up... great job...

As to WordPress itself (and I am a user), where to begin...?

1) The HTML issue referred to several times above is NOT caused by TinyMCE / FCKE or any other of the editors, it's caused by a (in my eyes unncecessary) Wordpress HTML compliance check in /wp-includes/formatting.php - it is wasteful as far as COPu resources go, and messes things up because they don't fully comprehend all the effects of some of the "greedier" regex operators.

Read about the solution here:
http://wordpress.org/extend...
(whas27, currently last reply)

BTW, the FCKE editor plugin was already much better than WP "native", and customizable/more full-featured at that.

2) Despite the layout changes and a few positive developments that seem to have gone into this, WP 2.5 appears to still have the annoying habit of wasting huge amounts of vertical screen "real-estate" at the top. We already KNOW what our blog is called... things (like "Dashboard" tab name and then again title) are repeated in stand-alone lines, creating more waste and forcing the admin user to have to scroll around too much (and let's face it, unless you are using WP as a membership site hack, that is the user that counts).

3) The Widget AJAXed drag-drop screen was one of my more favorite things, this seems like a step back almost (as you yourself noted). All they had to do to make it more overseeable is get rid of the wasted space at the top, and use smaller fonts/sidebar default boxes. Really, I thought there were much bigger fish to fry...

4) The changes in tag management are still less than the Simple Tags plugin already has... but of course it'll likely break this poor guy's work for a while for the umpteenth time... how many times will WP force their plugin contributors to have to rewrite their stuff? Just say: Plugin XYZ is so good, we made a deal with them to include it in the distribution. Why reinvent the wheel, especially if it's an inferior wheel?

5) On a related note, the auto-updating of plugins seems like a very bad idea from all sorts of angles. Auto-updates don't work well for freakin' Microsoft (just the other day one of the nightly Vista updates broke my MS Word... go figure...), this could break your WP blog site while you sleep. Let the admin decide what to do, being able to test the changes before they go in. The current 2.3.3 notification "system" on the plugins screen is fine.

In Summary: I am going to think long and hard (and test on some separate testbeds) before doing this upgrade. Frankly, I am underwhelmed. I love Wordpress for the flexibilty it gives us to riff upon their baseline, but they sure aren't that great at sticking to a reliable tune...