WordPress 2.5
March 29, 2008
Today, Matt Mullenweg announced on the WordPress.org blog that the latest and greatest version of WordPress is now available for download. The new Happy Cog-designed user interface is an amazing improvement—WordPress has always been sophisticated software, but has never until now had a serious user interface to match.
Along with it we’re bringing you an all-new (well, almost!) WordPress.org. I first mentioned this redesign a few weeks ago and more than a few friends and WordPress users have expressed their relief to hear about this long-overdue revamp. The site is still in its infancy—with the launch of 2.5 time was very tight to design and code a new web site, too, but we’ll be continuing to polish and shine in the coming days.
Also—I meant to mention this earlier. WordPress is an open source project built by a community of people, most of whom don’t work with us at Automattic. But it goes beyond even that. WordPress also benefits from the generosity and hard work of others who have released their own open source projects. Everaldo Coelho is the designer behind the Crystal Project icon set, a beautiful collection of free, open source icon art. Because he released the project under the LGPL, we were able to incorporate it into WordPress, and his icons can now be found in the new Media Library in WordPress 2.5. Thanks, Everaldo.
Hi Matt, first of all I want to say thanks so much to all the people (like am I correct to assume yourself?) who have put so much work into the great WordPress project. Already though, as I have stated in the Word Press Support Forums, I have encountered some pretty big issues with WP 2.5. These really concern me already because I was almost ready to decide to make my whole site a blog-based one, using WordPress, and now I have to re-consider.
Anyway, I don’t want to sound “whiney” at all, but I just wanted to see how to fix these issues, and also help if I can by being a part of the developer community in reporting these issues.
The main issues I seem to be having (so far_ are centered around the WYSIWIG – especially with inserting links (pop-up window appears blank when I highlight text in post editor to try to ‘Insert a Link’).
Also, I believe you had said that the WYSIWIG editor “would not mess with the text” of a post upon editing (like indeed at times it did with previous versions, especially messing up line spacing). Well this time it is also messing up line spacing and font size after I go from ‘HTML’ to ‘Visual’ mode in the post editing window.
MY POST HERE ON THE WP SUPPORT FORUM:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164297
(“WP 2.5 – WYSIWIG Problem”)
Any help you can provide would be most appreciated. (User sacredpath has pointed out the conjecture that maybe the browser could be affecting this? I am currently using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13. (Interestingly enough I noticed that the missing white body background for tables in the new version on 2.5 in FF is back when I checked it in IE 7).
Thank you very much,
Kevin Pajak – Webmaster, jpopexpress.com
My site’s WordPress Blog:
http://www.jpopexpress.com/blog/
I’m very new to WordPress, so I have a great deal to learn. However, it does look very interesting and I would like to start blogging my own things. I’m into real estate right now very heavily and might set up something on that. I also raise Boxer puppies, so I think I would like to start something on Boxers and collect and gather information on them and also share information that I have as well.
Thank you for all the links in your site to help learn more about WordPress.
Hey Matt, I just wanted to write and say thanks for the hard work. I’ve been looking forward to WordPress 2.5 ever since I heard it would be a redesign. It looks sharp and so does the new WordPress.org.
I can’t wait to see what you guys have in store next.
Thanks for your hard work! It looks great!
Update on the problem inserting links and images using the WP 2.5 Admin Dashboard WYSIWIG editor (in Firefox 2.0.0.13):
I downloaded the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 browser and it took care of this issue – now able to insert links, images, and embed media – fantastic (oh and this browser looks just ROCKIN too already….). Good job WP team…
I really like the new look of Wordpress. I have been using Wordpress since 2.0+ version and I am really impressed with the work of the Wordpress community. This is the best work ever done!
Hey Matt,
Really like the new design. Seems as though you are topping the work you did at SilverPoint, which in my opinion already was top-notch. Do you have some links to other sites you’ve done since we worked together there?
Take care!