Upgrades, updates, and more of the same
WordPress 2.5 rolled out last week and finally, I somehow managed to find the time for upgrading this site too: my day job and other concurrently running projects played their role in this delay. I’m glad it hasn’t been such a pain to do it, although I have a parallel experience and altogether different with the upgrade process for Miho’s website. It must have been the solidity and simplicity of the theme I use that saved me from remembering all those extremely colorful words in my native language.
Anyway, first thing that I noticed was the back-end’s conceptual similarity with that of Movable Type 4. Well, the colors in the range of blue tones are still those of WordPress of course, but the whole rounded corner thing and AJAXish style certainly contributed to that impression. At which time I thought “Zeus, I hope they didn’t borrowed the difficulty of posting from them too!” Fortunately, the WP developers seem to have had stopped just short of doing this. Lucky me, and millions others…
On one hand, I’m still confused with the Manage and Settings apparent function overlapping, plus I don’t understand why they had to move the Category selector below the post editor; on the other hand, I really appreciate showing the permalink right under the post title.
So, an overall mixed impression is what I was left with after the first encounter with the new administrator interface of WP. As for the new and hyped widget functionality, well, here the things are also in the gray area. I can see what they were aiming at with the new add/edit style, but I still have some reserves as of their having reached that goal. In a certain WP theme, featuring loads of optional widgets, I almost got lost on which one had I used and where (i.e. home, sidebar, single, archive etc.) because of their all/used/unused selection.
Hopefully the developers will listen to their users and fix some bugs before moving further with their next releases - I understand they’re already working on v2.5.1 and preparing to start on the v2.6, so that WP shall stay the blogging platform of choice for the many of us.
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