Comments on: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:49:48 +0000

Since upgrading to 2.9, I can no longer post any code samples. Line feeds are stripped out so the code renders in long single lines.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:05:36 +0000

A WP upgrade would not wipe out your blog. I bet if you looked at your database all the posts are still there. You just have some little glitch to fix — a missing wp-config file or missed a file when upgrading or something simple like that.

By: Michelle Lamar

Michelle Lamar — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:27:16 +0000

WISH I would have read your post before I tried to upgrade to 2.9. I’ve been using WP for years but with the 2.9 upgrade, it wiped out my entire blog—-and my back-up files are not uploading—so I guess all my posts from 2005 until last week are GONE. *Sigh* Just shows I need to read you more often.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:30:15 +0000

Great overview, thanks fella.

By: David Wells

David Wells — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:15:00 +0000

Thanks for this info on the wordpress update.

Looks like I will have to go through and upgrade all my sites =P. They should add in a bulk upgraded to upgrade across multiple sites at once in wordpress 3.0

By: Tim Nicholson

Tim Nicholson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:50:04 +0000

To be clear, to display the thumbnail images in a theme, you need to specify this in functions.php:
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’);

And then specify this where you want the thumbnail to appear (usually in index.php):
the_post_thumbnail();

You will also want to style the image in your .css stylesheet.

One thing that is a big dissapointment with this, though, is that you still have to manually specify a thumbnail for each individual post. I wish that it would parse the content for images and make a thumbnail out of the first one that it finds.

By: Keith D Shrock

Keith D Shrock — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:12:16 +0000

Great feature-by-feature description. Finally an Undo button — every bodies favorite Microsoft feature. Why did it take so long for basic logic to set in? And a quick picture editor — looks like the beginning of a time savor. This is going to be FUN.

By: Elizabeth K. Barone

Elizabeth K. Barone — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Thank you for this. I can’t wait to play with some of these new features. Great write-up!

By: No' Joke

No' Joke — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:54:44 +0000

Thank you very much for this post… I’m about to upgrade to wordpress 2.9… I hope it won’t mess out evrything

By: Vitaliy Rain

Vitaliy Rain — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:46:51 +0000

It would be desirable for optimisation of kernel WordPress, reduction of consumption of resources. All basic new functions in WordPress 2.9 are directed for work with images. Yes it became more convenient to work, however kernel WordPress was not updated about 5 years. Persistently we keep for old, to the detriment of development so we lag behind others CMS. Integration of plug-ins into a system kernel, not a way out.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:53:41 +0000

Am afraid that the thumb handling will cause a heavy use of hosting space, especially when you’re not aware how it works exactly….

By: Stephen Tiano

Stephen Tiano — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:08:48 +0000

Very good piece. I was looking for someone to come out with such comprehensive coverage. Last question is whether any OS–Leopard or Snow Leopard, specifically–is having any difficulties after the upgrade to WP 2.9?

Thank you for a job well done.

By: Carly

Carly — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:34:12 +0000

Fantastic write up! I’ve just upgraded. I like ‘the post thumbnail’feature- gonna use this!

By: Christopher Wulff

Christopher Wulff — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:30:13 +0000

How is the page slug better than the page template? Now users need to remember the name of the slug to use rather than select from a dropdown, no?

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:57:04 +0000

I just wanted to point out that I tried your method of adding a video using the method you described above it didn’t work.

(Use the File uploader and choose â€œFrom URLâ€ and paste the link to the page that contains the media, not the media file itself) in a post or page)

According to http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds you simply copy and past the URL right into the post, not using the file uploader. I followed the wordpress instructions and it worked. Not sure if I just had a glitch but I thought I would point this out.

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:48:24 +0000

This was way more helpful than the WordPress Blog’s announcement of 2.9 was, especially the part about how to do the embeds. I’m going to link to your post from my blog. Thanks.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:14:40 +0000

Thanks for a vwery clear and concise write up. The basic image edition tools, and trash will definitely make this a worthwhile upgrade.

Also looking forward to some interesting plugins!

By: Massimo Burgio

Massimo Burgio — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:39:10 +0000

Thanks for the tips – can’t wait to upgrade!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:22:01 +0000

Thanks for the write-up! I’ve been digging through articles to get a comprehensive list of all the new features…but yours is the best so far. Good descriptions and examples.

Cheers!

By: Maskil

Maskil — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:09:09 +0000

Thanks. Nice to read a review of WP 2.9 that wasn’t just a rehash of the official announcement!

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:41:35 +0000

Thats a great Writeup..! I am looking forward to install the same and make the best of it.

Thanks for the article.

Cheers’Vijay

By: Shabbir Bhimani

Shabbir Bhimani — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:06:57 +0000

I just Upgraded to WordPress 2.9 and things looks good now. I hope themes would soon incorporate the features ASAP.

By: Jim Sefton

Jim Sefton — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:04:10 +0000

This looks a really worthy update indeed. I would love to see even better flickr integration but I guess that’s a job for the plugin makers. It does make me wonder what is going to be in 3.0.

By: Karl Craig-West

Karl Craig-West — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:23:59 +0000

Can’t wait to get a good look at this one.

Nice write-up, many thanks.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:34:35 +0000

I had couple problems installing this version mainly as related to other plugins. Trying to sort issues out and will report asap. Just make sure you backup all before install, always recommended.

Thanks for the 10 tips though, couple nice additions indeed.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:34:14 +0000

Great overview, but I just upgraded one of my blogs and I can no longer login.

It only brings up the wordpress “Update Database” button screen, then it does that and then the next screen is full of error messages and the continue button brings me right back to the “Update Database” screen. It’s looped.

By: TU

TU — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:07:57 +0000

Upgraded successfully I am quite happy with Image features.

By: alientyc

alientyc — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:38:37 +0000

Great intro to wordpress 2.9
Specially like the post thumbnail for themes which will be very helpful

By: Audee Velasco

Audee Velasco — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:23:24 +0000

Thanks you for the Info, It will certainly help wordpress theme developers like us.

I have just updated my blog with wordpress 2.9 and excited to play around with the new features.

By: Max Richardson

Max Richardson — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:52 +0000

Poor ‘Scissors’plugin though Re: The new image tools. In a short time I can imagine WordPress will eliminate lots of other neat plugins… Does anyone else use this auto-program for twitter? http://tweetspinner.co.uk