Wordpress 2.0

Posted on March 19, 2006 by agentrickard

I finally got around to upgrading to WP 2.0.

I avoided upgrading for awhile, on the grounds that it would take too much time. Hah. If you discount the 2 minutes it took to backup MYSQL, and the 10 minutes it took to download and archive my old installation, the entire upgrade process took about 75 seconds.

Quick likes/dislikes.

+ Eaaaaaaaaasy upgrade. Painless and perfect.

+ Akismet looks good. I even created a dummy WordPress.com blog just so I could get an Akismet key.

+ Nicer default fonts for editing :-)

- Defaults to a WYSIWIG editor. I hate those things. But very easy to turn off.

- Like Drupal 4.7, there's a lot of unnecessary AJAX-y type interface stuff on the edit panel. Yes, it's cool to show/hide metadata options. But I prefer to be able to see all options by default. Let me turn things off rather than have to hunt to find features. Use of collapsable forms reminds me of an old, bad trend.

Well, minor gripes aside, color me impressed.