I think it still works

After months of procrastination, I just upgraded WordPress to version 2.6. Where to start… Well the admin interface looks way nicer, but when I’m writing or editing a post, stuff like categories and tags are not as immediately accessible. I mean I have to scroll down the page to get to them. This is probably not a big deal, since these are things you would set once and rarely change. But its still a bit annoying. In the old interface I could move these sections up and down on the sidebar, and either you can’t do this anymore, or I just haven’t figured out how yet. It also looks like there is a lot of wasted space at the top of the page, and this is one of my all time pet peeves. Grrrr! See this screenshot for what I’m talking about.

But on the plus side, the Autosave feature kicks total arse now. It’s off to the side so I can see it easily, and it dims slightly when saving, so I catch this in my peripheral vision and know everything’s going to be OK. Post Preview is now a nice big button instead of the pissy little link, so that’s also great.

I also just found this intriguing “Turbo” link up in the corner. Apparently WordPress now supports Google Gears so “After you install and enable Gears most of WordPress’ images, scripts, and CSS files will be stored locally on your computer. This speeds up page load time.” Maybe I’ll try that out some time.

Overall, it was pretty painless. My theme still works, and thus the site also appears to work. I haven’t checked everything though, so if anything’s broken, drop us a line via comment or email.

Oh and this is just a little line after the jump so I can see what happens to my feeds.