Upgrade To WordPress 2.5

Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, all this sitting about with my feet up has sort of put me off the computer for a while. I did upgrade my version of WordPress this evening to 2.5 (that’s right, check the number at the bottom of the page!), just so I could use the new light and airy admin interface designed by certain people I highly respect at Happy Cog Studios. Thankfully nothing went wrong, that I can see, but if you do happen to spot anything, do let me know.

Have you upgraded yet? If so, do you like the new interior? My favourite part is automatically upgrading plugins, but the design and usability is beautiful too.

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Comments

  1. 1April 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Douglas Karr Says:

    Love the 2.5 update and the new administrative layout! I only had one plugin that failed to run. I think the plugin autoupdate mechanism is the most exciting feature!


  2. 2April 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Karen Says:

    Not a fan of 2.5 - and not just because of change itself, I hope. The admin Ajax seems to be hit and miss with a significant number of setups and the autoupdate of plugins has the seeds of insecurity - version 2.1.1…?


  3. 3April 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 am

    Phil Says:

    I love it too Douglas! I actually had installed a couple of other WordPress 2.5s for other people and I was jealous of it all, so I had to upgrade! Which plugin went wrong? I did have one problem, with MarkDown, but I wasn’t using it really anyway.

    Hi Karen, it’s a shame it’s not working out for you or others. I’m sure you’ll grow to love it. Maybe you need to wait until some of the bugs are worked out in version 2.5.1. The autoupdate of plugins is more secure than getting a plugin straight from the author, I’d have thought, since they have to go through the plugins repository. You have to trust the author in order to install a plugin in the first place anyway, so I’m not worried.

    Thanks for your views, both of you.


  4. 4April 29th, 2008 at 5:39 am

    Jarod Clark Says:

    I have a couple clients up and running with 2.5 and they love it. I dont think that the upgrade is worthwhile to retroactively go in and upgrade older blogs, but going forward it is a great package.


  5. 5August 6th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    Web Design Zoo Says:

    Most of our clients struggled with it at first. However after a few hours of clicking about - the new design settled.

    Not really a major improvement in my eyes, but definately worthwhile.


  6. 6September 10th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    Wordpress Themes Gallery Says:

    The new wordpress does look kick-ass!

    And yeah, I heard that they made some huge changes with the dashboard UI and commenting.

    As for your move, it seems to have done a great deal of good!

    Is it just me or is the blog awfully quick to load nowadays?


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