Well I was cruising for new feeds an I came across the flickr blog which had a nice bit of cognitive dissonance as you see above. Oh and I installed WP 2.5 and I wanted to try it out. Then I discovered that image uploads for a great many installs are broken in 2.5 including this site. I have also noticed some bugs with the editor like adding paragraphs breaks when I did not. Overall 2.5 has a far more organized than 2.3 and maintains compatibility with all the plugins that I use. I also like the plugin that fixes the image upload. I am not sure why we would need a flash based uploader anyway:
< ?php /* Plugin Name: No Flash Uploader Version: 1.0 Plugin URI: http://dd32.id.au/ Description: Disables the Flash Uploader of 2.5 Author: Dion Hulse Author URI: http://dd32.id.au/ */ add_filter( 'flash_uploader', 'noflashuploader' ); function noflashuploader() { return false; } ?>
#1 by Doug on April 1, 2008 - 8:57 am
There was much contention on the wp-hackers mailing list in re: Flash uploader. The upshot is that they wanted multiple upload capabilities, a progress bar and a few other fiddly bits.
Other than that, how are you liking 2.5? You really need to install Ozh’s Admin Menu Drop Down CSS. It makes interacting with the admin a MUCH nicer experience.
#2 by DD32 on April 3, 2008 - 12:16 am
Better experience for the majorty of users basically.
For those on slower connections uploading larger files, it also presents a progress bar, which is something that is needed to show users that theres an upload in progress.
Its a shame that so many web server setups have security in place to prevent such uploads, and that the flash plugin has to be so tempramental on different OS’s..