Current Mood:
Geeky
With the usual side-effects of sweaty hands and raised pulse rate, I upgraded my wordpress installation to version 2.3 (download here) yesterday. Murphy’s Law didn’t let me down… because I expected a medium-sized disaster (as happened with one of my previous upgrades), it didn’t happen! :D And I’m breaking my promise of not blogging today for the sole purpose of trying out that everything works fine! 
So far I discovered one little hiccup: my little WP-dTree plugin seems to have a silly issue with displaying the categories, though the archives showed up just fine. For now I deactivated it, but I’m not happy with having that long monthly archive listing. Who knows, perhaps there’s even an inbuilt option in WP now that allows for a collapsible yearly display rather than a monthly one? Will have to dig deeper into this when I have some more time…
A little bug in the comments form seems to have been ironed out: if the ‘Enter’ key was used to insert a line break, although showing properly in the comment form, it was ignored once the comment was posted. That’s fixed now! :) (that one might be of interest to you, Jean-Paul! :D)
What’s new:
- Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories, which is neat. Before, a plug-in would have had to be installed, which I never got around to do.
- A neat ‘Advanced Toolbar’ in the wysiwyg editor an be toggled on/off (but annoyingly it reverts to ‘off’ automatically after each save), which I’ll be trying out forthwith!
- For example, if I want to use a different text colour, I don’t have to code that in html any longer, and the same goes for marking a piece of text as
a Heading! 
- Another neat addition: you can now choose to ‘Paste from Word’ or ‘Paste as Plain Text’. That’s one feature that I’ll have to try out in the coming days to see if it’s any good…
- Oh, and I’m happy to find that ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ have made a re-appearance in the editor, though I’d come to terms with using the keyboard shortcuts; they’d been left out from version 2.1 onwards (I think).
- One change that doesn’t affect me severely, but that I found puzzling, is that ‘Incoming Links’ in the WP dashboard are now linked to Google’s Blogsearch, rather than Technorati. The latter gives a more interesting view of things; I’m not really interested in knowing how often I’ve linked to my own posts, which is what Google thinks I’d be curious about!
Well, that’s all I’ve found out in the short time I had to play with it, where changes from an end-user’s point of view are concerned. The real geeks will find the other stuff interesting, which I’m not capable of explaining properly. I don’t like the idea of using copy/paste just for the sake of making this post longer; you’ll find the full list of improvements and additions, coming from the horse’s mouth right here!
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hehe great to hear the upgrade went without a hitch :)
And great to hear also that line breaks are displayed! :D
the reason that category plugins in general don’t work, is because of the tagging support, … in my case for everything to work i had to make these changes:
get_var(“SELECT cat_ID FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE cat_name=’Asides’” ); ?>
(to)
get_var(“SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name=’Asides’” ); ?>