It’s been a bad night as I didn’t get much sleep, so this might sound more ranty than it really is…
Firstly, that WYSIWYG interface? Freakin’ awful… I’ve spent the last 2½ years in total control of my postings, I’m not ready for some fancy-schmancy bit of javascript take it away from me… The only blessing is it can be turned off.
The Inline File Upload sucks ass, I had my upload path going to my normal images folder, completly ignoring the wp-images one so now why would I want to change that? I didn’t even get the option, WordPress changed it for me, luckily I found a plugin that restores the old upload method, but it’s kinda sad it required a plugin to do that… Sure, it’ll protect some users from uploading large images that may ruin their layout, but surely that’s their perogative? Also, the option not to have the big stinking box on the post page would be nice.
While I’m on the image upload… Why would I want the image to be a post in it’s own right? This option should not be a default.
The Flickr BlogThis option has been screwy recently as the WordPress XMLRPC has changed… Apparently it doesn’t like the classes I specified in the layout on Flickr, which really sucks. Good thing I kept the moblog as WP 1.5.2 which has no problems accepting Flickr posts.
Michael Heilemann pointed out how useless the “Other WordPress News” feed is and I’m in full agreement, sadly the Dashboard Options plugin isn’t 2.0 compatable (at time of writing) as you were able to turn that waste of space off.
The phantom self induced pingbacks are back… Easily the worst option in WordPress. Pinging other sites is ok, but when I link to a post of my own I shouldn’t see a dirty pingback, this disappeared in 1.5.x (at least for me) but now it’s back with a vengeance as is the non working trackbacks.
Thats the current negative aspects of WordPress 2 for me, the rest of it is great, I do like the movable AJAX sections in the post page and the ability to expand/collapse them, I do like the fact Akismet and the DB Backup plugins came with it, I do like the new look to the admin interface, so much so I’ve not bothered to get the updated Tiger Admin plugin.
Overall it’s a big step forward for the WordPress team and they should be congratulated, but to a user like me who was extremely comfortable with the 1.2/1.5 way of doing things, it’s a slight step back in many places as they cater to novice or new WordPress users (I assume). Just proves you can’t please all the people all the time…
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4 responses to “WordPress 2 Observations”
I totally agree with you on the WYSIWYG editor. It was the first thing I looked to turn off. And, I noticed the flickr problem the other day. All the div’s came over with no classes at all. Sucked.
Overall, I am happy with the new version, though.
Thanks for the useful upfront review.
I’m about to do a migration to a new domain and to v2 from v1.5 which as yourself I was very happy with.
Lets hope I don’t start the new year by ripping out all my hair !
All the belated best for the NY btw.
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Upgraded one blog and … well… yeah… I think “meh” sums up my feelings. Some new stuff, some old stuff changed (gone) and not a huge difference to the way I use it.
Not sure I’ll bother with my site until I can get a nice slim (quick loading) admin page… Good to hear others reactions though, before I leap in.