Comments on: WordPress updates to 2.6, adds Gears support

The latest WordPress update is not only handy for security reasons, but adds a slew of new and downright useful features for power bloggers.

[whas8020]

Looks like mostly fluff so far, while important issues that were raised about the 2.5.x release remain unaddressed.

1) A theme previewer? How many times do they think a serious blogger changes their theme? They make it sound like it's a weekly occurence that needs to have previewing.

2) Versioning of a post also seems like a relatively rare occasion, were talking about blog posts (that are by definition rather short, typically personally-tinged musings of a single author), not 10-100 page documents with multiple authors.

3) The GoogleGears thing is interesting, but hardly something crucial for all but a small minority.

4) Quick capture of other people's content for referencing looks more useful.

5) Some of the media management improvements look useful as well, too bad they had to come as part of the radical redesign since 2.5.x, that actually took away many things that worked just fine or even better than they do now, such as the previous Widgets drag & drop screen, or the right-hand pane of post controls in the write screen (the new write screen wastes even more vertical screen real estate than the old one).

6) None of the security improvements that are mentioned in the post needed to be tied to the radical 2.5.x upgrade, Wordpress/Automattic could have done the right thing and released those separately for older versions as patches. It seems bad practice to use security fears to force users to upgrade, even Microsoft doesn't try to do this quite as often as Wordpress does now.

To get more background on the security fix issues, read my post on an experimental security fix back-porting to 2.3.3 here:

http://businessmindhacks.com/post/wordpress-233-security-retro-fit

[whas8020]

Looks like mostly fluff so far, while important issues that were raised about the 2.5.x release remain unaddressed.

1) A theme previewer? How many times do they think a serious blogger changes their theme? They make it sound like it's a weekly occurence that needs to have previewing.

2) Versioning of a post also seems like a relatively rare occasion, were talking about blog posts (that are by definition rather short, typically personally-tinged musings of a single author), not 10-100 page documents with multiple authors.

3) The GoogleGears thing is interesting, but hardly something crucial for all but a small minority.

4) Quick capture of other people's content for referencing looks more useful.

5) Some of the media management improvements look useful as well, too bad they had to come as part of the radical redesign since 2.5.x, that actually took away many things that worked just fine or even better than they do now, such as the previous Widgets drag & drop screen, or the right-hand pane of post controls in the write screen (the new write screen wastes even more vertical screen real estate than the old one).

6) None of the security improvements that are mentioned in the post needed to be tied to the radical 2.5.x upgrade, Wordpress/Automattic could have done the right thing and released those separately for older versions as patches. It seems bad practice to use security fears to force users to upgrade, even Microsoft doesn't try to do this quite as often as Wordpress does now.

To get more background on the security fix issues, read my post on an experimental security fix back-porting to 2.3.3 here:

http://businessmindhacks.com/post/wordpress-233-security-retro-fit

[whas8020]

Looks like mostly fluff so far, while important issues that were raised about the 2.5.x release remain unaddressed.

1) A theme previewer? How many times do they think a serious blogger changes their theme? They make it sound like it's a weekly occurence that needs to have previewing.

2) Versioning of a post also seems like a relatively rare occasion, were talking about blog posts (that are by definition rather short, typically personally-tinged musings of a single author), not 10-100 page documents with multiple authors.

3) The GoogleGears thing is interesting, but hardly something crucial for all but a small minority.

4) Quick capture of other people's content for referencing looks more useful.

5) Some of the media management improvements look useful as well, too bad they had to come as part of the radical redesign since 2.5.x, that actually took away many things that worked just fine or even better than they do now, such as the previous Widgets drag & drop screen, or the right-hand pane of post controls in the write screen (the new write screen wastes even more vertical screen real estate than the old one).

6) None of the security improvements that are mentioned in the post needed to be tied to the radical 2.5.x upgrade, Wordpress/Automattic could have done the right thing and released those separately for older versions as patches. It seems bad practice to use security fears to force users to upgrade, even Microsoft doesn't try to do this quite as often as Wordpress does now.

To get more background on the security fix issues, read my post on an experimental security fix back-porting to 2.3.3 here:

http://businessmindhacks.com/post/wordpress-233-security-retro-fit

[whas8020]

sorry for the repeat posts, there seems to have been a hick-up with the AJAX connection...

feel free to delete the multiples

[wedding-planning]

Its nice to see Wordpress upgrading and always adding new features and bug fixes, the blogging platform was once riddled with issues.

[askarize]

Even though everything looks great with WordPress I personally don't like the way they handle the WordPress API Key. They should think from a different perspective. I thought there will be some update with 2.6 release on that but disappointed.