Upgrade or else?
Written on Apr 09, 2008 // Wordpress.According to this post everyone HAS to keep updating WordPress to the latest version, because otherwise you risk getting hacked. Which is sound advice, but… on the other hand, why? I did upgrade to 2.5 and I think it’s a big step in the wrong direction. I don’t like the admin panel, with a new dashboard where you can’t add or remove anything without adding a plugin for that because they seem to have forgotten to implement it. With an advanced media manager whose advanced options I don’t like. Oh, and you can now select if you want to left or right align a picture. For which it adds some css. Which doesn’t work here. Which is why I can still add my own align=”left”. Or with a new widget interface, which was once meant as a simple system so newbies could drag and drop and tweak their look without having to know any code. Except the drag and drop is now gone. And so is the feature that you could remove a widget and it would still remember its settings so if you dragged a text widget from one bar to another the text would still be there. And gone is gzip as an option because according to ‘them’ we don’t need it.
And so on and so forth. So I don’t like this ‘you HAVE to update or risk death’ because I don’t want to HAVE to upgrade and lose features and ease of use. Everywhere you can read about people who hate 2.5 and rolled back to 2.3.3. Which is good for now, but undoubtedly soon there are going to be exploits discovered for it, which can only be ‘fixed’ by upgrading.
I’m posting this in 2.5 so I can’t roll back without at least losing this and a few recent posts. I’m still contemplating it. If someone decides to fork 2.3.3 I might.
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julynell
Apr 09, 2008, 17:59Hmpf, I would have to agree with you. Since I have my blog on wordpress.com the upgrade was done there already some time ago (last week maybe, I can’t remember)
I hate it and that’s all there is to it. I guess they like having the monopoly position they are in, since there is hardly an alternative for this.
RottenKid
Apr 09, 2008, 20:22moveble type is always an alternative for wordpress , even that i love wordpress, i think that 2.5 is a…..how should i say in the nice way…i get it … wordpress 2.5 is like windows vista (a disappointment)
janrocks
Apr 09, 2008, 23:54Why wordpress? Personally I find it way too hard to use, which is why I can’t be bothered with it most of the time… hell I can’t even work out how to install them plugin things.
XIII
Apr 09, 2008, 9:21Upload, activate. Unless you’re talking about your blog here.
As for why I’m using it, it’s the best out there, and I’ve tried plenty of others over the years.
But it does feel a bit like RK says, like it’s taking the Vista route.
janrocks
Apr 09, 2008, 14:39I think I need to set it up on my webserver and have a play about where I have control of the stuff.
It does seem that more and more of these web applications are becoming very vista directed. That will be sad for them in a year or two when most people will have dumped the broken vista for free alternatives.
For now I will take the “or else” I don’t like being forced.