RSSHello, Wordpress 2.5!
by Yvonne | March 30th, 2008 @ 6:18pm | No Comments
I just upgraded to the brand-new Wordpress 2.5. It looks pretty slick! The upgrade seemed to go off without a hitch, but let me know if anything seems broken.
There are already some nice writeups about version 2.5, so I’ll try not to repeat too much of what others have said.
First Glance: Write Post
The first thing I noticed when I sat down to write this post was that the post slug box has been replaced by this new edit permalink function below the post title:
I like this a lot because I’m obsessive about my post slugs, but I always forgot to change the default slug when the box was in the sidebar. Now it’s in a much more accessible location.
The Write sidebar has some nice improvements as well. First is the prominent Preview button. Second, the “Save and Continue Editing” button is toast and now the “Save” button lets you save and continue editing instead of taking you to some other page.
I had a small problem when I went to use the Preview button before I had saved a draft. The preview came through just fine, but the only way to get back to the Write page was to hit my browser’s Back button. And after I did that, I discovered that my post title and permalink had both disappeared.
I went to the Drafts page to see if I could recover the title and the permalink (yes, it would have been faster just to re-type it). I did, but lost the most recently-written paragraph because it hadn’t yet been auto-saved. It seems like a solution to this problem would just be to have Wordpress auto-save the post before it shows you the preview.
Previewing the post after a save and then hitting the back button caused no problems.
The timestamp feature is now more intuitive. All posts publish immediately by default, but you can edit the timestamp if you want…without having to tick a redundant checkbox.
I also like the Related links in the sidebar, though it’s less necessary now that the main Dashboard navigation has been revamped.
What I’m missing most from the new sidebar are the category boxes, which are now located under the main post box and the tags. I think they probably did this for space reasons because now there are tabs to view all categories, or just your most used, making the box too wide for the sidebar.
Plugins Passed with Flying Colors
I had no problems with my plugins. If you have the latest versions of all the following plugins, all should work fine under Wordpress 2.5:
- Akismet 2.1.4
- Bad Behavior 2.0.13
- Better Feed 1.1
- Dagon Design Form Mailer 5.4
- Exec-PHP 4.5
- Feed Statistics 1.3.1
- ShareThis 2.1
- Similar Posts 2.5b12—now requires the Post Plugin Library and includes the functionality of Similar Posts Feed
- WordPress.com Stats 1.2—I did have to re-activate with my API
- WP Unformatted 1.1
- WWW Redirect 0.3
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