As a Release Candidate of WordPress 2.5 has been available for just over a week, I thought I’d givie it a try as I’m a sucker for beta stuff (I’m using Firefox 3 Beta 4 right now for example). Now there has been a big change in the admin section (you can see screenshots and see it in action on the WordPress dev blog) and I’ll safely say 99.9% of these changes are for the better, I just have one gripe… And I view this to be a major oversight.
Well, it wouldn’t be a WordPress related post without me complaining, wouldn’t it?
If you’re like me and chose not to use the WYSIWYG editor back when 2.0 came out, you’ve now lost the quicktags functionality.
That is it, and I only complain as I had an edited version that used <b> and <i> instead of <strong> and <em> and added an option for an image class, everything else is very impressive.
I was originally turned off by the changes in layout, but just over a week later I’m pretty happy, I’m glad I can now alter feeds on the Dashboard without hard coding them. I like I can update plugins with one click (and remembering FTP information) instead of having to go out, download, unzip, upload and check to see if anythings broken. And the only plugin that broke was the iPhone admin, and the new admin works well enough on an iPhone screen so it’s not that big a deal, at least for me.
I’m looking forward to this moving out of beta, it’ll give me an excuse to update my theme, or perhaps move on to Scam City version 10 (codenamed SCX), as I’ve had this look for over 2 years now. Not that I dislike it, hence why I might just retire the version 9.0 tag as it’s gone beyond a joke now…
EDIT (31/3/08 12:25pm): Now I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 proper, the quicktags have reappeared! Hooray! But a word of warning (as I found out on our work-related blog) WP 2.5 doesn’t play well with K2’s Sidebar Manager.