I finally have gotten around to upgrading my WordPress blogs to 2.5. What an achievement in UI and usability improvements!
Aside from the much improved UI, WP-2.5 also includes an automatic plug-in update feature. When you go into your Dashboard, and select plug-ins, you’ll see the familiar list of plug-ins. However, if the plug-in alerts you of an update, all you have to do to update is click update and it does it right there on your server. No more downloading the update and uploading to your plugins folder. Really slick.
Also, some of bloggers have had problems with “line returns” simply not appearing in the previous version of WordPress. In other words, if you tried to double-space between paragraphs, WordPress would often erase your paragraph tag completely and mush all your lines together. Quite frustrating to have to go into the HTML and add “<p>” codes to everything. Not sure if this is a browser/platform related issue or just a bug in WP. This problem was even more annoying when you went back to edit a post that you’d just fixed all the spacing in! WP would take it all the spacing out and back into the HTML you’d go to fix it! Beyond frustrating. This issue has been fixed in 2.5. Finally.
I urge anyone using WordPress to upgrade to 2.5 as soon as you can! Be sure to back up your old WP folder in the even something goes wrong (like you accidentally write over your config file, like yours truly).
April 24, 2008
Technology