Disappointed with WordPress 2.5 ?
As more and more people are upgrading to the latest release of WordPress 2.5, the number of rants and complaints is increasing steadily. I am sure the developers have worked hard to make the administration section of the new release as user-friendly as possible, but there are some shortcomings which should definitely be addressed in further releases of WordPress.
Here are three things about WordPress 2.5 that have really put me off :-
TAGS
1. First of all, I don’t understand the need of including an “add” button with the tags. The old method of specifying all the tags just separated by a comma was far less time consuming and you did not have to press an extra button every time you wanted to add a tag.
CATEGORIES
2. Adding categories is the worst of all. First you scroll down to the categories section (which were very accessible in the earlier version always being on the right side), then you click on “Add New Category”, write the category name and finally click on the add button. I really hate this part as they have increased the total number of steps to add a category for your posts.
RIGHT PANEL
3. In WordPress 2.3, all the other features (comments and pings, password protect etc.) floated right of your post which made them very much accessible. I am sorry to say but this is not the case with the latest version of WordPress.
I am sure many of you also feel the same way about the latest 2.5 release. You are welcome to vote below and let the developers of WordPress know about your feelings.
Shouldn’t the broad be wearing the headband? I mean, the guy is disappointed in her, right? That’s why he’s slapping her across the gob.
I suppose she could be disappointed in him BECAUSE he is slapping her. But that isn’t as funny.
It’s grown on me, perhaps it takes a bit of time to get used to change but I agree whole heartedly about redesigning the write post page.
I’d highly recommend trying out the windows live writer thing for those people who can’t get the image uploader working, it’s worked really well for me. Although if you’re worried about validation I’d suggest not using it for flash files, but it’s great for everything else.
I can’t believe i can’t do something as simple as change/edit the category name..
I don’t like it at all, I have a testaccount with a basic theme installed now. The “visit site” button hovers over the “write” button, I can still press it but barely.
Also the password protect feature doesn’t work as supposed, after entering a password and clicking the submit button nothing happens, then you need to press F5 to get in.
Several of my favorite plugins that work fine under 2.3 don”t work under 2.5. Also my main (paid) theme shows strange behaviour under 2.5 as it doesn’t seem to be 100% compatible and last not to mention the image upload problem.
I still am running my main blog under 2.3 and plan to leave it like that, thought I read somewhere that 2.6 is coming but will test that also before I switch.
Can anyone explain to me why it takes so damn long to fix the image uploading problem?
I bet no one in the WP group has any knowledge on HCI, IxD, or UxD—so how can they even say they are doing things more user-friendly?
So many people throw the words user and friendly without having any clue about the topic…
There is also the Baltic Amber Admin Themes & Schemes plugin which allows you to modify the ‘Write Post’ panel in the following way:
- put ‘Categories’ and ‘Tabs’ as two columns right below the main text input area,
- remove ‘Title’ label to save additional 30px of vertical space that brings the ‘Categories’ and ‘Tabs’ selection up even more.
- place the main navigation bar right next to the blog’s title.
You can view the screenshots here.