WordPress 2 upgrade: smooth as silk
The new WordPress 2 codebase is supposedly a completely new backend, but my upgrade last night went without a hitch. Impressive. I guess this is largely in part due to my installation being pretty much stock, but even so, nice. I do slightly wonder if I’m missing an index on some of the tables in the DB though, not necessarily from WP2 but even before, my “admin dashboard” has been painfully slow to load. A problem for another day, however.
I’m sort of digging the new TinyMCE wysiwyg editor integration, although I must admit I was also getting pretty used to the Xinha Here! functionality. Not sure I’m totally ready to switch yet, but I’m giving it a try. I love the dhtml sections in the ‘write’ screen, so I can close the ones I don’t usually use, and reorder them to reflect my priorities. Nice work! Also, the new preview mode, while not critical for me and my simplistic theme, is nice to have. I’m definitely liking the better media upload/browse widget, although it’s vaguely unintuitive at first, and I wish it browsed all of the images in my assets folder, not just the newly-uploaded one(s). Also, I’d really like to see you able to put in a URL to an image and have it suck that down… sure there’s potential for copyright infringement, but for stuff like the logo above, I’d rather not deep link to their image, and I doubt they mind me copying it! Maybe an enhancement coming in the future, though.
Overall… so far, so good! Nice work, guys!