WordPress 2.5 – 2 thumbs up

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 10:49 am

Well I have changed quite a few blogs over to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5 and have had no problems so far.

Unlike the last major change when they went to 2.3 I have had no trouble with the various plugins not wanting to play nice with this version.

The biggest thing I have found is the look in the back. There is a video tour in a previous post. Widgets have become easier to use and I occasionally have a problem finding something but all in all it has been a very smooth transition.

I haven’t used their WYSIWYG and won’t as I use Blog Desk for composing my posts. It allows me to do all the editing and image manipulation on my desk top.

Now I only upload with it and do not publish direct (even though I could) because I can’t manipulate the tags and title tags from my desktop.

As title tags and tagging improve your results I would recommend you do the same.

A lot of the new features in this one probably won’t come to fruition for a bit as this looks to be the base upon which they will build in the future. Getting used to this now will allow you to take advantage of some of the upcoming features.

Looks to be relatively safe to do this upgrade at this time in my humble opinion.

As always your comments and questions are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold