Sunday, March 30, 2008
WordPress 2.5 released
The newest version of everyone’s favorite blogging platform is now available as a free download. I told myself I wasn’t going to upgrade anymore until I was certain it was bug free. For some reason this morning I felt like living life on the edge and decided to spice things up by doing the upgrade.
So far, so good.
They actually changed much of the interface. The look is totally different. The dashboard used to be a sloppy, confusing place. Now it is much more streamlined. Everything seems to be set up in a much more user-friendly manor. Of course you wont ever see this unless you are a WordPress user. The actual blog looks the same. The actual blog acts the same. At least from what I can tell so far.
It appears that the ability to embed YouTube videos is built right into the platform, making the use of third-party plugins unnecessary. With prior WordPress versions, you would have to post in the non-visual editor mode to post a YouTube video. Otherwise the WYSIWYG editor would botch the YouTube formating. I wont know for certain until I try to embed a video, but it looks like I should be able to do it.
If you are a WordPress user and you are wondering about doing the 2.5 upgrade, by all means do it.
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A good analysis, I hadn’t noticed the you tube embedding, I am going to go try that on my test blog. The one thing I have noticed about 2.5 is is seems to be a theme breakers. You are the first blog posting on the subject that either has a 2.5 friendly theme or hasn’t yet installed 2.5 on their blog with reckless abandonment. For those interested I put screen caps of the new interface on my blog including some full size ones.
BTW expect me to be commenting on some your recent posts and comments, we seem to think along the same lines on more than wordpress.