I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.5. I you can read this it probably worked.
Update: Well, it seems to have worked and I’m really sorry I did it, because I really hate the backend. I hate the way it looks; I hate the way it’s arranged; I hate the color choices; I hate the text choices; I pretty much hate everything about it.
If it wasn’t such a hemorrhoid to move, it’s enough to make me look for a different package.
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I can read this. Congratulations.
I just updated the post after looking all over to figure how to update a post, and then to find out how to re-post it after updating.
The problem is that the backend is abbreviated over at their free site, and I assumed that that was the problem, but it isn’t. Things that were obvious and one click away before are now buried and the type faces are smaller. It’s a PITA for people who just want to write and not play with the program.
Now you know why I have stuck with Blogger thru thick and thin. Ran my own server and blogging software before. Been there. Done that. It sucked. Never again. Nowdays all I run is the DNS, and Blogger does the rest.
– Badtux the Lazy Penguin
I might have stayed with blogger if they hadn’t nuked my site during the upgrade, and then changed the rules for being a member of the club when I tried to re-join, which is why I can’t comment at your place, Google hates me, so screw them.
It just took two minutes and too many clicks to edit my previous comment. This sucker has a user interface created for programmers not users. There’s entirely too much “see how neat this is” going on.
Stella had a Blogger blog a few years ago, but abandoned it. Recently she started up again. (She has since stopped blogging again; it’s apparently just not her “thang.”) The old blog was still visible, but in the interim, she changed email addresses, so Google, which had passworded her old blog, had no way to send her the new password. In the end, she started a whole new blog, with a different URL. Something is wrong with that picture…
IMHO, it is highly ironic that my manually maintained blog, with all its limitations… and believe me, it has many… is still easier to post and (occasionally) to revise the template than any blog created with blogging s/w. I’m not congratulating myself; there’s a lot about the YDD that could not be generalized, period. But my own life has not been nearly so impacted by all these blogging s/w version changes out there as the lives of those who use the latter.
The software is fine as long as you don’t try anything fancy. I had to go out and find another template because my initial template kept getting overwritten with every upgrade.
Supposedly the new system won’t mess up tables when you use them. Tables are necessary to make somethings meaningful. Somethings need to be in columns and tables are the best way of accomplishing that. The software gave me holy hell during the World Cup as I used tables to present the results.
It has been fine for most things, but I’m annoyed that it wasn’t broken, but they fixed it anyway – just like Blogger did.