Wordpress 2.0 Nightmares
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Luckily for me, upgrading to Wordpress 2.0 was a breeze. Or so I thought, as my blog was back up as soon as I finished uploading the new files. Then I clicked round the slightly modified admin panel. The write post page has changed significantly, which is exactly where my problems started.
The new Wordpress 2.0 write post page spots a WYSIWYG textarea, with plenty of AJAX around the page. To tell you the truth, I didn’t like the WYSIWYG editor one bit. It’s not as responsive as the traditional textarea, and when you insert stuff like links andi mages, it pops up a web-page. Imagine the additonal time your browser needs to connect back to the server, just so you could add a friggin’ hyperlink.
I coule bear with that, as the WYSIWYG textarea could be turned off. But what’s worse is the uploading tool. In Wordpress 1.5, I have an extra tab open with the Upload page, uploading images as I type away. I have the option of asking Wordpress to create my thumbnails, and I simply copy and paste the generated code.
In Wordpress 2.0 however, you can’t really specify the size of the thumbnail, and images are storead at “wp-content/uploads/%permalink sturcture%”. No, it’s not a .htacces redirect, as the images do end up here. It’s just so stupid. Can’t you trust me to let me specify where to upload my files? It was then when I decided that’s it. I couldn’t see any other reason that justifies me using Wordpress 2.0. About 30 minutes later (it could have been faster), I was back on Wordpress 1.5.2.
As they say, if it ain’t broke, leave it.
3 Responses to “Wordpress 2.0 Nightmares”
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Herbert Says:
December 29th, 2005 at 7:35 amSwitch off WYSIWYG-Editor (”Account”\”Options”) - and you have your good old text area. And use the updated IImageBrwoser 1.5Beta Plugin - and you can upload at any directory with all thumbnails, resizes, html tags, title, alt and so on. And WP 2.0 is a lot faster: write a new entry, ping a service or make a trackback - no more time to wait, you can instant save. Try the inline-preview and … and … and …
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Herbert Says:
December 29th, 2005 at 7:57 am… by the way: I saw your “recent” box at the sidebar - it’s build with AJAX, isn’t it? Is there any plugin or tutorial to do it such way? Thank you!
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Jonathan Ng Says:
December 29th, 2005 at 9:20 pmMaybe I’ll try Wordpress 2.0 again some other time. Yes, it’s AJAX. It’s hand-coded with reference to numerous sites. developer.mozilla.org has som great references on AJAX. I’d put up the PHP files in the future..
