I had the fairly recent pleasure of working with Wordpress 2.5.1. The new dashboard and a few other items took some adjustment, but after awhile, I’ve grown to appreciate it. But, just when I thought everything was going well, they came out with another update, 2.6. Even though there are some very cool features in 2.6, not all the bugs in 2.5.1 have been solved in this latest update. In addition, some hosts with Fantastico installer have rushed right out and updated their offerings, so 2.6 was the only auto install available. While this may seem nice, it can be a problem, especially when you haven’t had the time to really check out the update. Just take a look at the forums over at wordpress dot org to see all the issues.

My main complaint is the problem with Permalinks. There’s been an issue with permalinks: when you activate them and want to “pretty” up your urls to something like www.yoursite.com/page, you use a custom permalink code like this:  %postname%  which WP apparently doesn’t like all the time. It has something to do with the chronological nature of postings. Even though Pages are not chronological, they still use the same database and permalink system has a little trouble with that. One GOOD thing about the 2.6 is the ability to edit the Permalink once you’ve turned it on. There’s a permalink edit line right under the title box. You just have to remember to save the edit, and save the page, too. The folks who work on the WP code have said they’re going to address this issue in an upcoming update. Fingers crossed.

So, now the question is whether I’m going to update this blog. As you can see, it doesn’t get used very much and it’s a useful playground for working with this version - still used by many. I could upgrade to 2.3 at least, I suppose.