Thanks for the heads up from one of my reader, Mauro about the current release of the unofficial Wordpress 2.5. Previously you can only see the glimpse of Wordpress from this demo blog but now you can test drive Wordpress 2.5 RC 1 in your own server.
As I usually mention earlier on in my previous posts, I rather wait until a week or two after new version was released before I make a move. First and foremost I don't want to put my blog at stake (in case of serious security issue) and secondly I don't want to spend my time unnecessarily to upgrade Wordpress script so often. However, in this particular version there are significant changes made. I decided to upgrade prior to the official release so that I can check my Wordpress themes compatibility (o2, Damai and 1 upcoming theme).
There are definitely a lot more features are not mentioned here and many little things that I overlook but here are few features that I would like to highlight. I hope this post will entice you to install and test drive this current update yourselves. So where we should start? I have already mentioned about the dashboard interface in my previous post, so let's move on to Widget page first.
1. Widget Page
In Wordpress 2.5, the list of available widgets will be displayed on the left side and on the right side is the number of widgetized sidebars. Previously we can simply drag and drop the widgets onto the sidebars but in this version you need to press "add" on widget list before it shows up in the sidebar list. Drag and drop action is still there if you need to reposition the order of the widgets. Only 1 sidebar with all widgets inside it are displayed at 1 time and you need to use drop down list to hop from one sidebar to another.
This new feature makes me lost for a while since I need to figure out how to remove the widgets added in the sidebar.
2. Write Page
The Visual editor looks pretty much the same. Don't be suprised if you cannot find the image uploader right below page editor or anywhere else. In this current version we can see additional toolbar purposely dedicated to add media files (picture, video, audio and other media), thanks to TinyMCE 3. Post in advance feature is now being incorporated into the publish button where you may decide whether to publish immediately or would like to set at a later date or time.
3. Comment page
There is one thing that I like the most about this new comment page; I don't have to scroll down all the way to the bottom page in order to do mass approval, deletion or spam marking and at the same time bloggers can still access all the comments individually.
Wanna learn more about new features in Wordpress? Here is the PDF report that boils down everything inside Wordpress 2.5.
Themes compatibility
Ok, speaking of theme compatibility, o2 and Damai are OK to be used in wordpress 2.5. Having said that, there are few issues need to be resolved such as 404 error page (not sure yet why it doesn't show up. Anybody wants to enlighten me?) and gravatar. I will upgrade those themes soon so that everything is completely compatible.
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