Comments on: WordPress 2.0.2 Revealed

By: Janio Sarmento

Janio Sarmento — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:10:19 +0000

I really had very bad experiences with WP 2.0. I’ve tried two upgrades, both of them unsucessfull. The last one, thought, could not be undone, and I only was able to put my blog back to work after I found a hacked version of two core scripts.

Right now, as you can suspect, I’m afraid of upgrading it to 2.0.2 version.

Regarding the RTE, I hate it, and I think it’s the worst idea one had for a blog.

Of course I appreciate writing in rich text, sometimes. But in such case, I use “Xinha Here” Firefox extension. It’s better then RTE in a lot of aspects, but mainly it does not take the control over HTML code away from me.

By: orangeguru

orangeguru — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:48:52 +0000

Hmmm. Still think that this AJAXculation of WP2.x went into the wrong direction. Basic editing and content management functions still are missing. I am very heavy involved with images and groupblog:

http://www.orangeblog.net

http://www.meckermotz.de

In both cases WP1.5 still is the better choice with certain plugins.

By: The Information Bank

The Information Bank — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:43:17 +0000

It’s good to know that the image uploading is working better. I hate having to manually correct the code the RTF editor uses since it doesn’t insert the correct picture dimensions!

By: dom

dom — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:19:04 +0000

I’ve been putting off upgrading a few of my blogs, but had to bite the bullet because I wanted to install a plugin that wouldn’t work on 1.5. I was quite surprised how easy it was.

I gotta agree with most here that I don’t like the RTE much because I don’t like the way it marks up – at least you can turn it off. Pretty happy with everything else though.

By: One Stop Under

One Stop Under — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:56:59 +0000

I find the MarkDown plugin so much better than any kind of WYSIWYG editor in WordPress. Maybe I’m a geek, but MarkDown syntax feels very natural to me, and the ability to insert any arbitrary HTML and not have it munged means you have total control over the formatting of your posts.

While we’re on the topic of WordPress – has anyone else had trouble uploading images when using Ecto? WordPress (2.0.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2) keeps sending me back my 404 page after I upload an image. I’ve checked all the directory permissions, path configurations, etc, but I’m having no luck. It’s very frustrating – I think something is broken in the XMLRPC implementation. I’ve also got a few text-only articles that can’t be submitted – they fail when posting from Ecto and also when posting from within the WordPress interface itself. Strangely, if I delete a paragraph or two they work fine, but if I then edit the article to add the text back in, they fail again!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:02:39 +0000

2.0.1 has several bugs that have been fixed in 2.0.2. Fucntionally they are the same. I’d recommend going one bugfix farther, John.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:24:41 +0000

Just got 2.0.1, but I’m still disabling everything cute in it. I don’t see the point of going from 1.5.2 to the 2s yet. My blogs on the former are so much easier to use.

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» Rich Text Editors - YGMTYCS not WYSIWYG :: Recommended Web Tools — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:21:02 +0000

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By: Jon Heizer

Jon Heizer — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:09:57 +0000

Yes YouTube abd others get removed. It gets very annonying. Some of my blogs use th RTE other don’t. Depends if I need things like YouTube to work. It’s not that I can’t do it by hand, its just I can whip up a few posts a lot quicker if I use it on some of my blogs. Going to be updating all my blogs from 2.0.1 this weekend.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:25:00 +0000

I liked the RTE at first. I could always pop over to the HTML button and clean up anything I needed to. It was quirky, but fine. Until I noticed a couple of problems with it:

1. I use the Google toolbar in Firefox that has a spell checker. Love it. But in the RTE, it would leave words in red or green. Argh!

2. I copied and pasted code from YouTube to embed a video. I pasted in the HTML view then pressed “update”, but the RTE deleted the encoding tags so the video wouldn’t show up. I reset the blog to not use RTE, copied the code back in, no problem

I’m off the RTE also until these are corrected.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:17:36 +0000

I find it frustrating that the RTE always tries to fix your markup for you. If you go into the HTML box to fix something or tweak the code, you update it, and then go back to the html again and wordpress has either discarded or changed the markup you added. Anyone know if this is still the case with 2.0.2?

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:14:39 +0000

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the Rich Text Editor. Never have been.

By: A.H

A.H — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:30:17 +0000

Oh well, i use the good ol’ editor anyway, i tried using the new one and it was pretty cool when you think you don’t have to insert all those tags in, but then you discover so many things are messed up in the post. No Thanks.

A.H