My Review of WordPress 2.5 (could it be worse?)

Okay, I am pretty sure that an average blogger who posts often is NOT going to like wordpress 2.5.

Everything seems to be in the wrong position, you can’t find anything and the “simplified” in-theory menu, is in practice seems to be rather complicated. For example, instead of just using the upload window below the post, now you need to click on the small image near “add media”, and wait until the window is loaded (about 5-10 seconds), and choose to upload from your computer, which is additional load time. Then, when you finally uploaded your poor photo (alleluia to that!), you need to choose parameters and alignment of the picture. Sounds simple? Well, it will take time to get used to it…

For choosing, in which category you want to file your post, you need to scroll down, because in the place where categories were normally located you see a menu of “related functions”… Hmm, if I am already making a post, why to put links with “manage tags” and “manage categories” under my nose, while it would be far more useful to display related posts close by, so that I, if needed, could link to them..? Oh and, when you work in Visual Editor and choose to insert hyperlink, in previous versions, the “http://” part would be selected by default and disappear if you click or paste URL, while in the new version it stays unselected, so if you just follow the habit and paste URL without removing the “http://”, you will have it twice and.. yeah, url won’t work.

Is there anything good though?

You can run spell check in 12 languages, and… and manage your plug ins, settings and users, if you put your glasses on and look good enough in every corner.

Bottom line… While everything is so web 2.0 and so rounded that it hurts the eyes, why oh why no one in this whole wordpress department could crop the bottom WP logo better..? Okay, once I will locate the “publish” button — this post goes online.