Yesterday I wrote about updating livecrunch to wordpress 2.5 and today I would like to add 5 things I love and hate about wordpress 2.5
Things I like in Wordpress 2.5:
1.Multimedia its the top priority on this blog, I upload videos and pictures at all the time, with multimedia I can add many pictures at one time, and also place some videos from youtube.com blip.tv or veoh.com (Stage6 shut down)
2.Layout of colors, they are much web 2.0 easy on eyes. But what I like also you can change the look and feel of your dashboard. Which I am not saying you couldn’t do that before with old WP! You could with little knowledge of php and html.
3.I blockquote a lot because I find best articles and post sometimes quotes. Before I had to click on “Code – HTML” highlight the text and then blockquote. Now I have blockquote right on top of my editor.
4. Sometimes I write few posts and find out they are not that important or don’t finish them, I like delete button in new version its right beside my editor instead all the way down where some people even now days don’t know it exists.
5.Omg they made it so easy to update wordpress plugins automatically, it’s one click deal which saves me about 5 minutes for each plugin update.
Things I hate in Wordpress 2.5:
1. Navigation sucks! I hate it, they crunch it all together. To add link I have to go to “Write” but to delete it I have to click on “Manage” I find this very annoying. Why didn’t they just leave everything on one page?
2.Lack of security, I already heard some security issue rumors and to be honest I am ok with it because 2.5 is still new, but yet again coding should take little bit more longer and maybe those security issues wouldn’t be found.
3. Categories, you know how many times since yesterday I forgot to categories my posts? Every single post I forgot to categories just because they moved it down to the bottom! WHY? I hate it!
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This is a pretty good list of things that you love and hate about Wordpress 2.5, I have only so far updated one of my sites with the new release (can’t wait to update the rest). I like the overall interface, it is clean and very well organized.
I agree that the categories are easy to forget in a situation like this where they’re located towards the bottom rather than the right-side. I’m sure with changing the layout for the admin section you can move-up the categories back to the right side.
Better yet, there should be a way to re-arrange the Write Screen.
Also Wordpress 2.3.x also had the same situation where you’d have to go to manage in order to delete a certain link.
Don’t worry, after a few days, you’ll get used to the changes
I like it better actually, as it’s more organized!
I agree with your list, esp. the omg! for plugin updating – e-a-s-y!
Would have liked to have seen a little more testing, but with the vulnerabilities of 2.3, they might have been up against the wall.
@farlane: I wrote interesting post on my other blog where i help bloggers about 2.3.3 and vul… you might want to see that because many blogs can be still affected!
I also often forget the categories when I make posts. I guess wp developers should have retained the category box in its old right hand corner location.