Dec 5


A brand new look

by Terry 05 December 2008


Since I can’t focus to get any work done this afternoon, I decided to test drive Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.7. Anyone else tried it yet?

This is seriously going to take some getting used to. The user interface is completely different and I still haven’t found all the things that used to be under Manage yet. The biggest improvement, though, is an auto-update feature so that users will never again have to upgrade via ftp. We can already back up the database from a plugin (though I’m old fashioned don’t trust it completely so I also do it with phpMyAdmin) but backing up core files and uploaded files still needs to be done by ftp. I’m concerned that people who haven’t done an upgrade before will use the one-click but neglect those back ups and run the risk of blowing their sites up. I know no one here would take that risk, of course, but I do keep archival copies of every version of WP going back to 1.2, if anyone ever needs to revert. But as for your images, you’re on your own.

Even though this is a stable release, the real deal 2.7 will be available December 10.

NOTE: Duh. I’m not running on all cylinders here. Crashing your site with a WP upgrade won’t touch your image files, just your core files. Sorry.

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5 Responses to “A brand new look”

  1. CGHill on December 5th, 2008 8:39 pm   (Quote)

    I’ve been contemplating it – a couple of other sites I read have reported installing it without major issues – but I’ve had a case of the lazies lately, so I may just wait until the official release next week.

    Or, given the speed with which .1 releases seem to appear, I may just wait until 2.7.1. :)

  2. Bluegrass Poet on December 8th, 2008 11:10 am   (Quote)

    I do have to wonder sometimes whether these new looks are improvements or just changes. I guess I’m old and my learning curve is slow or long or something but what ever happened to if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Which is my way of saying that I haven’t yet figured out everything I can do with 2.6.

  3. Terry on December 8th, 2008 2:09 pm   (Quote)

    CG,I haven’t found any problems in it so far. I’m curious to see how the image upload works in this version. 2.0 was buggy as hell so I installed a plugin to do it. It would be nice to not need it anymore.

  4. Terry on December 8th, 2008 2:10 pm   (Quote)

    Poet, you don’t have to upgrade if you don’t want to. :) I’ll leave your install alone until you tell me otherwise.

  5. Bluegrass Poet on December 9th, 2008 9:05 am   (Quote)

    On the image upload, they seem to have fixed that with one of the upgrades to 2.6, so it works okay now.

    And I don’t really want not to avoid the change. I think I’m really fussing at Microsoft who took Office software I knew like the back of my hand and hid everything from me for no reason that I can figure out. And I hate their default normal style. Yada yada.

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