Comments on: WordPress 2.0 Officially Released and Blogged. http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2005/12/wordpress-20-officially-released-and-blogged/ Kickass info re CSS, WordPress Themes, ModX Templates, CubeCart Templates, CMS Templates, WebDev News, and occasional weird personal observations. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: vkaryl http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2005/12/wordpress-20-officially-released-and-blogged/#comment-140 vkaryl Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:43:59 +0000 http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2005/12/wordpress-20-officially-released-and-blogged/#comment-140 Oh yes, I quite agree with all of those points, including <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/" rel="nofollow">Matt Mullenweig's</a> 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 <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow">WordPress 2.0</a> 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. 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.

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