Well yesterday I took the plunge and upgraded my WordPress version to 2.5. A simple matter of upgrading the wordpress automatic upgrade plug-in to 1.1 and then running it. After a few minutes I was using the nifty-new features of 2.5 to automatically update all of my plug-ins. I did discover one hitch, adsense manager no longer works correctly. But no big loss, I was going to get around to coding an alternative myself. Speaking of alternatives to plug-ins, I’m currently rocking 13 plug-ins with 9 being active so it looks like I’ll have to be rolling my own soon.
First impressions of 2.5? Nice, very nice. A lot of improvements have been made and most of the changes make sense and are very logical. The new dashboard is pretty slick and I took the chance to integrate wordpress.com stats plug-in into it. After never really bothering with it before (managing my wordpress.com account was a nightmare) I’m pretty impressed with the features. Will it replace Google Analytics or Clicky? For me, no. However I feel I can finally relax a little over statistics and not sweat the small stuff.
Overall verdict? A big step in the right direction, just a few more tweaks, but you can never have enough tweaks.
(Edit: Image blatantly snagged from the (mt) mediatemple weblog)
