Took me a minute to get used too as well, but overall I love the new 2.5. Seems to be really intuitive, those guys really worked hard and did a great job!

I gave Gravatars a shot a few months ago. I like the general idea and believe they are being revived from an older released. The thing I didn’t like was that over half of my commentators didn’t have an account, so there were ALOT of blank faces. You have alot more reach, so maybe it will be different for you.

I like the 2.5 updgrade. It has acouple of glitches like moving back and forth betwen the Write and Manage tab. Also it doesn’t allow me to reorder modules on the Write page. And a few other minor items that wasn’t an issue in 2.3

The overall look, feel, and functionality is definitely a step in the right direction. I’ll give it 1.5 thumbs up.

When i first change, i also took me quite a while to get used to the new version.. In the first few days i hated it and even considered switching back, but now i think it has some pretty nice new features..

and also writing articles works faster.. i like wp 2.5

I love 2.5, especially the ability to upgrade plugins right in the plugin list. That’s slick and was overdue. Also like the new image and media upload interfaces. 1.9 thumbs up!

Either commenting does not work for me, or the page does not show that its awaiting moderation…

I tried Brian’s threaded comments but didn’t like it that much - but I’m diggin’ the new 2.5. I didn’t upgrade right away, I did one blog and worked with it for a minute and then did the other one, so that I could get used to it a little at a time. I like it.

Yes, it took me awhile to get used with the menus and tabs. Overall, WordPress 2.5 is ok for me. all my plugins worked fine after the upgrade.

I wrote mines on my blog (that i saw you recently visited ). I don’t like the admin panel either, so i installed a plugin called Fluency. It’s makes the admin layout super clean and easy to use.

Your blog very inspiring,anyone will getting more advantages from here . have a nice weekend

I’m still having trouble with the new media interfaces. At first, I couldn’t upload any files without getting an error. I then disabled a feature that would organize the media by date. It seems I can upload media now, but I can’t actually see them in Wordpress. Wordpress will indicate that 1 video is available, for example, but I can’t actually select it to put it into the blog. I’m going to have to go back to the wordpress forums, I guess. Other than this, however, I like wordpress 2.5 a lot.

I faced an issue with the ‘ Recent Posts’ plugin after a post on my blog hit the Digg front page (And yes,I am using 2.5 too ). So make sure you double check that.

Its better this way anyways, registering to post sucks!

cool! I wondered how to get the avatar. now to come up with a good one

Wordpress 2.5 is much better imo I don’t know how they will ever improve on this

I’m not sure if I have a Gravatar. I guess I’ll find out on this first comment…

This is not a rant or bashing, it’s a genuine question from someone who never paid much attention to the blogging world: why is it that Wordpress is used so much more than other systems for blogging?

Specifically, when it comes to having multiple blogs powered by the same system, Wordpress seems to be quite a pain, while Drupal makes it really easy, because you can have virtually infinite domains served by the same codebase with no hassle at all.

I tried to use Wordpress on a new blog I’m starting but I quickly gave up on it and headed back to Drupal.

I do realize that Drupal requires a bit more knowledge and work to set up with the same set of features that one gets from Wordpress with less work but is that the only reason for dumping a system which is (IMHO - and of course, I can be wrong) much more flexible?

Or is it that the folks that have dozens or hundreds of blogs don’t use Wordpress, nor Drupal and use something else instead?

Sounds like a good plan. Someday I’d like to have a url on it’s own rack and maybe multiple urls on their own like yourself.

I actually hate the threaded comments on a high-volume blog, like this one. Sure, it’s great if you just show up one time to read through a 150 comments in one sitting. It’s also fine for a blog that never gets more than 10 or 20 comments.

But if you’re following a blog post from the beginning, you basically have to start at the beginning each time you come back, looking for new threaded replies to older posts that you already read.

What does make sense, would be something like a click-to-quote feature and have it laid out more like a forum. That way, replies still make sense, because of the quoting, and you don’t have to backtrack to see what’s going on. It could be done with the same “Reply to this comment” link that’s already there, so people don’t have to manually quote.

If everyone used blockquote appropriately, there’d be no need for any plugin, but that won’t happen.

Plus, some sort of quote plugin would never need to do anything except for when someone use it. At that point, the post itself is just like any other post and just falls into the natural order, quote included.

Kinda like how nice it is to read through, or quote people, on a nice forum setup like vBulletin… when compared to dealing with forced threading on some crappier boards or mailing lists.

I just got the gravatar. Let’s see how this baby works.

I like the new 2.5 but it was very difficult at first to get used to it. But it is very very powerful. The upgrading was great, very easy as always.

I haven’t had problems with 2.5, but we’re changing the theme and custom coding a bunch of stuff on new sites. We’re testing this month so we’ll see how it goes.

2.5 looks and sounds great… I just keep thinking my plugins are gonna go belly up? just have to dive in I suppose… gravatar eh? I like it !

I know this is weird, but in almost all cases the new update/improvement leaves behind that one feature in the old that you must have to do without.

I liked the old template , where you could choose your categories right next to the post. Besides that, 2.5 is a breeze. While centering an image immediately following a para (which is aligned left) centers the entire post. 2.3 took care of that without messing it up.

But changes in 2.5 ar welcome.

Though they made lot of good changes, the previous admin panel was great.
Adding/removing widgets takes time now.

I am a big fan of 2.5. I like the new changes and the new lay out of the dashboard (even if many dont). I also had no issues with plugins but I still have a few blogs to switch over, we will see!

You can still manually type in a category in 2.5 -

Click on “+ Add New Category” and type in the category name. If it already exists WP will automatically check it for you.

Your site loads so much faster now!
2.5 is also awesome, much easier to use and looks better overall.

What is plug-in wp upgrade do you use?

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It took a while to get used to the new admin interface, but it grows on you.

Definately seems worth changing over from Google’s Blogspot!

I’m hoping that the new AJAX editor will stop chewing up my HTML code and spitting it out. I’ve heard reports it will.

I’m generally very pleased with the 2.5 update.

Bugfixes they need to address include:
widgets that strip out the code if not saved “just so”. I liked the old widget bar that would preserve the code you had in it so you could test if a widget was giving you trouble. Now, you have to add the widget AND get the code that was in it if you take it down.

Also, the media library doesn’t work right. You can’t successfully download and correctly position an image from that window yet. I still have to go to the WYSIWYG window to put an image where it belongs.

Have been using WP since 2.0. This is the best yet.

I love the new version. The media add on options are great. Although the admin area obviously takes some getting used to.

Just upgraded to 2.5 and i loved it.
Wasn’t at all hard, but the widgets features are confusing as everything is changed there!

Anyways overall impression.. Superb

Media upload window doesn’t work properly in IE9. I use FireFox on one computer and haven’t switch from IE9 on the other and now I have the motivation to do so.

Yeah there were some pretty significant bugs in WP 2.5 that I found and had to fix for my clients. The main one had to do with media uploads. Images and what not were not loading into the system correctly depending on the host configuration. So I luckily found some patches and permission fixes to get it to work.

http://www.icastlimited.com/2008/03/31/wordpress-25-image-upload-problem/

Otherwise, I dig the new layout and functionality. The one click plugin upgrade is hot. Works really nicely for my less tech savvy clients.

Just hope all my favorite plugins iron out their compatibility issues.

Yeah, I’m not so much a fan of the new admin panel. I think 2.3.3 was much more intuitive than this one. This is too “consolidated” for my tastes.

I’ve upgraded 4 blogs so far and the thing I enjoy the most is the 1-click update of plugins. That has really save me some time.

I upgraded all of my WP sites last week, only took a few minutes per site which is nice. The admin panel sure is different, it’s growing on me. The new media and gallery stuff is nice. All of the upgraded sites feel faster, obviously some nice changes to the code..

James

Upgraded to 2.5 a few weeks ago and it is not bad and looks nice.. I like the media support and some of the features.

However it seams a little slower to click around in ACP and also the widgets are not as user friendly. The way code is stripped from the widget when ever it is moved, where as on the old style, the code stayed in the widget, even if the widget was moved or saved in and out of the live side bar.

Thanks for the link to threaded comment plugin of Brians. Bookmarked that site and will add it to my blog soon

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Not that educated in WP but I can tell the difference in your site.

I agree. I think it is slower. Also, I do not consider moving menu items around as progress.

Shoe - you mention that this site was on a shared server with many of your other sites. I’ve read recently aboutyour MMA site, but what other web properties do you own? I’d be curious to see them as they pertain to many of your SEO and marketing tips. Is there a list of all your sites somewhere?

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I hate the new admin panel, and not only because I hate the watery colors. (Tried Fluency but couldn’t get it to work for some reason.) I don’t like having my entry editing screen crunched to the left side with the categories, tags and other stuff stuck at the bottom. Why didn’t they just use all that white space to the right of the screen… kind of like the old admin panel did.

It is cool. 2.5 is the best. It is more user friendly than 2.3.2 or 2.3.3. But I lost all my files why upgrading. That sucks

Anyone really saw a difference in Loading time with Wordpress 2.5? And how about server resources? Wordpress 2.5 is lighter as they mentioned it?

I just made the switch. It is taking some time to get used to it. But cant complain, it is a great CMS system.

I’ve upgraded to 2.5. also)
I used to it already. And I must confess it is a bit faster)

I’m still sitting on my hands and waiting before I upgrade to 2.5. I think there will either be bugs and security holes found. After an update I’ll look to upgrade.

2.3 was lot more better than this version.

No one likes change, but by 2.6 everyone will be happy
I still think how fast DOS was and how life was simpler back then… when kids could play in the streets without fear of being shot, when people said ‘hello’ face-to-face, when mom baked pies…. when men were men… and all that jazz!

Just getting used to wordpress after using blogger to get my intro to blogging. Tried to install WP on my server with the famous 5 minute install - 2 hours later still no go - longest 5 minutes I ever had ! May not like my Yahoo server as the special instructions provided pointed out. I followed them to the letter but still would not work. Gave up and went to wordpress.com to host my blog but kinda wish I had been able to get it going - just for the satisfaction that there was another thing I could do with my PC. Will try again when in the mood.