Took a sneak peek

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Mar

The media library in WP 2.5On Tuesday, March 18, the first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was introduced, and me as a true fan, downloaded it to my test installation to see how it works. My special interest belonged to the new Media Library and the widgets panel. I dd some upload testing with the library, and there are obviously some difficulties, because after uploading a media file, there is no sucess message shown, but simply a white page. When closing it, the uploading is not performed, which means, it does not work. It DOES work in IE 7 though.

What makes me happy is the fact that one annoying thing has finally been fixed: Does anyone ever (when using the visual editor) see all div elements turn into p-Tags after wanting to edit the page again? I find this quite annoying, because the layout breaks with all the ps in it. This was why I deactivated the visual editor to write on the mere source code window. Now, I did some div testing in the editor of WP 2.5RC1 and the div stayed there when reopening the page with the visual editor. That made my day :-)

This was written by Daniela on March 21st, 2008, Tags: , and filed under: WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

7 Responses to “Took a sneak peek”

  1. Feah :
    March 21st, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    I’ve been dying to see the new Wordpress, and from the screenshots, it looks amazing. I love that they’ve tried to make the interface more simple, and less bloated looking. It looks a lot like the ExpressionEngine interface, I think, but I could be wrong. I also love all the new features they’ve brought in, and I think it will be so much more powerful. I might wait a bit with actually using it, until it’s no longer a beta-version, but I’m definitely super excited :D

  2. starwalker :
    March 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 am

    yeap indeed, wp 2.5 is dang cool!

  3. Nanda :
    March 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    Ooh I read about WP2.5 yeah, it looks great and so different! I can’t wait to try it! Is it safe to use it for your site now? Or should I wait till the full release? What do you think?

  4. Daniela :
    March 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    @Nanda: I think you should really choose the safe way and wait for the official release. That is what I do, too. I installed the RC on my local server only to see how it works. :idea:

  5. Nel :
    March 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    I think I’m going to play it safe and wait for the stable release ;-) I’m too cautious to do anything else…

  6. Nanda :
    March 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am

    OK thanks, I thought so too but I thought I’d might as well ask ;) Thanks for your reply! I’m really looking forward to see what has changed in WP 2.5 :D

  7. Lexie :
    March 24th, 2008 at 7:52 am

    I downloaded the RC too, because I was very very curious to see the new features. While I like the new admin panel and how they’ve integrated Gravatars into the system, I’ve yet to try out the Media Library as it seems to have a lot of bugs at the moment.

    But it’s certainly operating better than before.