WordPress 2.0 Officially Released and Blogged.
I tell you, with the bug reports on the forum Matt Mullenweig should be ashamed of himself for releasing WordPress 2.0 in the condition it’s in. And I notice that Matt is not the one fielding all the support questions. Somehow I get the feeling that the rest of the Devs have been super dumped on. Which, in my humble opinion, means that kudos are due to them and the community for picking up Matt’s slack and a BIG THUMBS DOWN is due to Matt, who seems to have his head up his butt.
The (incomplete) bug list:
- permalinks don’t work (this, to me, is the kiss of death)
- white page after upgrade
- the editor strips out javascript and lots of other stuff
- there’s no image upload anymore without a plugin
- images have to be ftp’d in a directory for the post instead of one of your choosing.
- Third Party blog posters don’t work without a lot of hacking
- RSS Problems, especially with Feedburner
- only thumbnail images in posts appear unless you hack core
- .htaccess update overwrites your .htaccess rules you had in there before WP
- Google and other spellcheckers no longer work
- Unsuccessful trackbacks cause infinite loops
- Even if you have your WP installed in a directory, if you point mainpage to toplevel that’s the .htaccess that is used- which overrides all your own .htaccess settings for your whole site if you allow .htaccess overwrite.
I’m sure there are many others, the forum has been so busy that posts that are only 15 minutes old are already OFF the front page. Oh, and might I speculate on the name of the genius who decided to migrate the WP site onto a new server the day he released 2.0? What a damn bonehead thing to do.
The basic WordPress application is brilliant. I’ve gotta wonder how it came out of a brain that has been making these badly thought out decisions re 2.0, or what’s been done to that particular brain since the original inception of this program . . .
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January 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Oh yes, I quite agree with all of those points, including Matt Mullenweig’s total failure of intellect in releasing software that’s still a good six months away from “release quality” (in other words, it’s still just beta software, and now MILLIONS of people are doing the bug-finding….) as well as compounding the idiocy by redoing NOT ONLY the entire support forum setup, BUT the Codex all on the same day! Being a moderator there leaves me (and the others of course) trying to help the essentially clueless and sometimes desperate folks who believed that “release software” meant reasonably bug-free. Which WordPress 2.0 is NOT by any means or stretch of the imagination.
The saddest thing is that due to the release situation, most of us mods haven’t really had time to test 2.0 ourselves, which means that many times we haven’t run into things that people are posting about. I have one upgrade of 1.5.2, and one upgrade of RC3. I haven’t had time to have trouble with them…. though I do note that my permalinks (they’re the default “pretty” version) are working fine on both installations.
This whole thing is just sad. What a horrible addition to WordPress’s previously very good reputation for quality and user-friendliness. When I started with WP in February 2005, if it had been THIS version, I would not still be using it.