I finally updated this blog to the new Wordpress 2.5 version. I first installed it on my home server to check if all my plugins still work with this release. That’s always the biggest concern when upgrading your wp blog, making sure that all the plugins are compatible. I have only come across one problem, on one of my blogs I use the embedded video plugin, unfortunately it doesn’t work anymore with wordpress 2.5. I have checked the developers website but there hasn’t been an update for some time. So I’m sticking to Wordpress 2.3.3 for that blog. I’ve spent quite some time googling for a fix but haven’t find one. It’s a very popular plugin and a lot of people are waiting for an update so hopefully someone finds a fix fast.
I haven’t had much time to check out all the new features but the new admin panel looks very different, they have moved a lot of things around. For someone that has been using Worpress for a couple of years its quite a change. There are some cool things, it’s now possible to customize the admin panel with widgets. So you can see only the things you want and so on. Coolest new feature of all is the exif extraction, when you upload a picture that has exif data it will extract that data and put it in custom fields. This is really great for photo blogs.
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