Personal Reflections – Page 92

Shifted To WordPress 2.5

OK, just shifted to WordPress 2.5 (from WordPress 2.3.3) today. Everything works fine – and my fears of having the theme / too many plugins breaking fortunately didn’t come true. So yes, it’s not listed on the official WordPress 2.5 compatibility page, but I can tell you that the ‘Fluid Yellow Black’ theme is compatible with WordPress 2.5.

I like the new interface in fact, although quite a lot of people I hear are hopping mad (or somewhere close to that). Maybe it’s just the reflex webmaster action of having things clunky, but two months of using Vanilla Forums has changed my perspective of how ‘cleaner looking’ software can be much more faster.

The thing I’m most looking forward to is the newer version of the TinyMCE editor – version 3.0 is bundled now with WordPress. The earlier one sporadically used to give some problems, I hope that has been sorted out now. I can only find out after using this for some time whether it has actually improved. Until then, I reserve my judgment on its new WYSIWYG capabilities.

Stupid WordPress

I came across this error pretty randomly when searching up (and viewing) and old post of mine – and it was this: when I shifted from Blogger to WordPress, WordPress applied its own stupid formatting to all my posts. Consequently, none of them have line breaks (still a problem), but more importantly none of the videos I embedded were showing up. Instead, WordPress was displaying their ugly embed code. I knew this would happen for new posts I made, but never thought it’d do the same for older ones. My bad. Maybe staying on a system like Blogger which used to maintain static pages to WordPress, which generates pages on-the-fly was something I forgot. So, between a bit of online testing, I sorted out the mess. Should work now. Sad part? Quite astonishingly, in most posts Rach had made, WordPress didn’t even keep the embed code!