Grievances with New Versions of Wordpress
As most of y’all probably know, Wordpress 2.7 [Coltrane] has entered the scene.
This new version of Wordpress sports yet another interface change, and a bunch of new (and rather amazing features). Though I haven’t upgraded yet, I have played around with the new interface over on Wordpress.com - and I’m impressed. It appears to be well done, easy, and more efficient. Many of the new features, like built-in stickies, mass post editing, and replying to comments right in the dashboard, have me drooling. However, I am reluctant to upgrade.
The trend for new version’s of Wordpress result in an “urgent” security fix/bug fix just a few weeks later is very consistent. While I think the people over at Automattic are awesome, and I love them for continuing to improve the (arguably) best blogging platform in existance, they always seem to create problems with new versions of Wordpress. (they’re already talking about v2.8)
New versions of Wordpress, (practically) always introduce new security problems, bugs, and (with few exceptions) outdate plug-ins. I’m almost done with plainbeta’s re-design, and I don’t want to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 because I haven’t been able to find a Related Posts and/or a Popular Posts plug-in that works on Coltrane!
Once I do find such plug-ins, I will gladly upgrade to what appears to be the best version of Wordpress yet. Until that time, I’m going to stick with Wordpress 2.6.
Haven’t heard about Wordpress 2.7? Check it out!
Hi Brian,
I just wanted to say that I agree with you about Wordpress changing it’s versions so often lately. Its seems just about 3 days after I upgrade a new version is out and I have to relearn another interface. It’s becoming ridiculous at this point even if the added features are a bonus…it’s just not worth adjusting my learning curve every few days. Great post by the way :)