http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/cool-new-wordpress-featurecool-new-wordpress-feature

Any ideas why does this happen?
Thanks,
Robert

Here’s the fix: http://www.icastlimited.com/2008/03/31/wordpress-25-image-upload-problem/

As for the Visual Editor, I am not sure if I am ready to trust that SOB yet.

Best Wishes

Rob

Great write-up!

Thankyou for the post. There are a few WordPress 2.5 ones around, and yours is pretty comprehensive. I like your writing style as well.

Question: I heard/read about the inbuilt Gravatar support in 2.5. Any experience yet with it? I would imagine it just fits right in.

For anyone searching for the now-deprecated file-based object caching, here’s a plugin that re-implements that feature:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/file-based-extension-to-the-wordpress-object-cache/

As to WordPress itself (and I am a user), where to begin…?

1) The HTML issue referred to several times above is NOT caused by TinyMCE / FCKE or any other of the editors, it’s caused by a (in my eyes unncecessary) WordPress HTML compliance check in /wp-includes/formatting.php – it is wasteful as far as COPu resources go, and messes things up because they don’t fully comprehend all the effects of some of the “greedier” regex operators.

Read about the solution here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=11&page=3
(whas27, currently last reply)

BTW, the FCKE editor plugin was already much better than WP “native”, and customizable/more full-featured at that.

2) Despite the layout changes and a few positive developments that seem to have gone into this, WP 2.5 appears to still have the annoying habit of wasting huge amounts of vertical screen “real-estate” at the top. We already KNOW what our blog is called… things (like “Dashboard” tab name and then again title) are repeated in stand-alone lines, creating more waste and forcing the admin user to have to scroll around too much (and let’s face it, unless you are using WP as a membership site hack, that is the user that counts).

3) The Widget AJAXed drag-drop screen was one of my more favorite things, this seems like a step back almost (as you yourself noted). All they had to do to make it more overseeable is get rid of the wasted space at the top, and use smaller fonts/sidebar default boxes. Really, I thought there were much bigger fish to fry…

4) The changes in tag management are still less than the Simple Tags plugin already has… but of course it’ll likely break this poor guy’s work for a while for the umpteenth time… how many times will WP force their plugin contributors to have to rewrite their stuff? Just say: Plugin XYZ is so good, we made a deal with them to include it in the distribution. Why reinvent the wheel, especially if it’s an inferior wheel?

5) On a related note, the auto-updating of plugins seems like a very bad idea from all sorts of angles. Auto-updates don’t work well for freakin’ Microsoft (just the other day one of the nightly Vista updates broke my MS Word… go figure…), this could break your WP blog site while you sleep. Let the admin decide what to do, being able to test the changes before they go in. The current 2.3.3 notification “system” on the plugins screen is fine.

In Summary: I am going to think long and hard (and test on some separate testbeds) before doing this upgrade. Frankly, I am underwhelmed. I love WordPress for the flexibilty it gives us to riff upon their baseline, but they sure aren’t that great at sticking to a reliable tune…

By the way, nice article. I am sceptic about the new colors, but the new functions should be nice.

I’m a bit concerned about plug-in compatability for 2.5. I have a lot of plugins installed on one of my blogs and I don’t see them all supported yet.

So, I think I may wait out this upgrade until everything settles down.

I had to dig into the code to find out that there is rudimentary Gallery support. I say rudimentary with the caveat that I’ve never used it. The code is in wp-includes/media.php and it looks like plugins can hook into

, that it works exclusively with images uploaded via WP (that get the attachment post_type in the database) and that the styling of the gallery can be modified by the user with the

filter.

Again, without using it I can’t tell you how effective it will be, but it looks like something that can lead to some very sexy photo gallery uses.

Jens, I misspoke. The category tab on the write screen has a tabbed interface, not the tags. I’ll edit that now.

Does that mean photo gallery, something more powerful and polished than inserting thumbnails that sometimes link to pages and mostly link to page errors (prior to me cleaning up the code)?

I edit write into WordPress. I’m always connected (except on flights) so that’s not an issue, though prior to auto-save it was a risk. I toggle between MCE and code view – as was mentioned above, the WYSWIG editor kills random embedding code that it doesn’t recognize. Had to fight it for some ESPN Duke (boo, hiss) video clip the other day.

By the way, tell me where to find cheap coding help for my little problems. :)