Comments on: SS!AB Updated to WP 2.5

By: Zyl

Zyl — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:05:08 +0000

Thanks for your post. It really gave me the impetus to fix the problems I was having with the LMB quicktags plugin.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:14:30 +0000

You can change the color scheme in the options, I believe.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:40:27 +0000

I’m quite impressed with the upgrades. There’s no real change to the ‘front end’ of the blog but I’ve really found the fullscreen mode of the WYSIWYG editor and the automatic ‘one-click’ plugin updates helpful. Can’t say I’m too keen on the categories and tags being shifted down either, but the orange-ness of the dashboard was my biggest disappointment (what’s wrong with plain ol’ blues and greys?).

I noticed 2.5 seems to have full text feed built in too, which has made my shockingly long plugin list slightly shorter. Given the tag management I’m tempted to drop Simple Tags too, but I like the formatting that plugin does with the tag cloud more than the default’s way of displaying them.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:58:16 +0000

I just tried the automatic plugin upgrade function for the Simple Tags plugin, and it went off without a hitch!

By: Owen S

Owen S — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:38 +0000

Ah. Well, you could always take a look at other people’s blogs or something, I guess? For me it’s mostly taking advantage of the Related Posts thing like I wrote about some time back.

The WYSIWYG doesn’t mess with your code unless you try to insert something ridiculously complicated like a Last.fm widget, or any NicoNico inserts — but I’m suspecting the code used is to blame. Those are irritating, though, considering how good the WSYSIWYG is right now.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:10:17 +0000

It’s too bad that you cannot have tags with the same name as categories, since that would allow me to try out the switch and see which one works better with this site. Still, the tags are on the bottom as well, so that doesn’t really fix my posting problem. Like Josh, I’d like to see some drag and drop functionality to rearrange the posting UI myself.

The update didn’t break any of my plugins, but some of the plugins had new releases because of WP 2.5 and so I had to reconfigure 1 or 2 of them.

I heard the WYSIWYG no longer messes with your code, which would be intriguing if true. I may have to give it another chance.