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Wordpress 2.0.1 Observations

February 5, 2006 by debbie T | WordPress

Now that I have been using Wordpress 2.0 for a few days, I wanted to jot down some observations…good and bad.

I like the right side expandable link menus. Leave a menu open, it stays open until you close it, even if you close your browser window and start anew the next day. What I don’t like it how small the category menu is. I don’t like scrolling to view all my categories; I liked it when they were all viewable on the page. What is cool is the ability to add new categories on the fly.

The time stamp messed up on me yesterday when I published an article I saved as draft. Somehow, it published as the day before. It could have been an isolated incident, but I will watch for the problem again.

When saving as draft, the preview area (below) is now displayed using your current CSS/theme. That is really wonderful!

For Splash of Style, I am using the old method of templates in Wordpress. I guess you could call it the ‘non-themed’ template design. I still have my design coded in the index.php file, not as a separate theme in the themes folder. For another one of my blogs, I do use the themes, so I know how they work. I think I am a little nervous to transfer to themes for this site, but I suppose the worst case scenario is that visitors would view my site as the default theme for a few hours (or days) until I figure out the bugs. It might be worth it to me to transfer, just because I don’t know how long this old method will be supported.

I am not a fan of the WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress 2 yet, but I think I will eventually get used to it. Especially since there is the ability to now insert your own html code (in code view). I haven’t tested it extensively, but what I saw, it works well.

I also really love that the WYSIWYG text editing area can be manually resized. How awesome is that!?

Funny, I have had a love/hate relationship with Wordpress over the years (read some of my older articles on WP,) but it is fast becoming my favorite blog/CMS program. I used to feel Expression Engine was my favorite, but while I was posting an article using EE this weekend, the editor felt clunky. Way to go Wordpress!

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