Ok, so I’ve downloaded, installed and tested Wordpress 2.5 RC1. I’m happy to announce that all my entries work just fine. The import process went great. It even asked me if I’d like to upload any images that were uploaded in my prior install. I didn’t see this in prior installs, so I’m guessing this is relatively new. Here’s a list of likes and dislikes (which I have already sent in to the 2.5 feedback email):
Things I don’t like :
1. too much wasted space at top. If there was only one line of stuff, that would work great. but there’s a lot of wasted space there. don’t like that. I would suggest that the name of the site show up next to “dashboard” or something similar to that and the visit site could go next to that. that would save so much more space.
2. on the write page. the categories are at the bottom. I’m likely to forget to choose a category and get pissed about it. I like in the 2.33 how you can move the items around. you can’t do that anymore. I don’t like that. I’d almost like to see the categories on the right under the post buttons.
3. Still no way to do sticky posts! This is really needed!
Things I like:
1. The menu options is just about right. i like that. “unimportant” items (settings/plugins) or items I don’t use everyday are small and set aside.
2. I like the “most used” clicking option on categories. neat.
3. i like the way tags are done. it looks like it still uses a bit of space though. but that’s ok.
Other than that, so far so good. I’d almost say that it’s ready to put out to the wild. I’m guessing and hoping that this is the kind of feedback they want.
Plugins that didn’t work for me?
Popularity Contest
WP Sticky
Top commentators widget
I still can’t believe they haven’t built stickies into WP yet.