Problems with Wordpress 2.5 Drafts and Posts

Posted on April 21, 2008 
Filed Under Blogger Indonesia, Fatih Syuhud, Indonesia Blogs, Indonesian Blogger, Internet

After I upgraded wordpress 2.2 into the latest version of wordpress 2.5, it seems there’s a problem whenever I try to write a posting / article or to upload images or files and to attach it to a post. I thought it due to something wrong with the upgrade process. So I intended to ask my host provider who did the job. Before doing that, I reluctantly googled the www if such problem ever occurred to someone else before.

Bingo! Raj Dash of Performancing.com seemed to have very similar problem like me. Even more he has a good review on the whole wordpress 2.5 performance and dashboard design which he says “disappointing.” Below I quoted from Raj Dash’s experience of what also happens to my blog after upgrading:

Write/ Save. If you publish a post then edit later, when you “Save”, the session does not close. They’ve removed the “Save and continue editing” button and changed the functionality of the “Save” button. Another huge mistake. If the functionality I want/need is still there, its not very evident. I figure that as an experienced WP user, it should be easier, not harder, for me to upgrade to a new version.

Drafts. Every time I create a new post, there are a multiple draft versions created, whose existence seem to have no relation to any activity on my part. What’s more, there are two types of drafts. I get one single draft that has the post title correct, but it’s in addition to my published post. Then there are anywhere from 3-5 drafts whose title is created from a timestamp. If this is happening automatically, there is hopefully a way to turn off this irritating behavior. I just haven’t found it yet. I just can’t fathom any reason for this useless feature. This is not the right way to do versioning. Now, I have to waste my time deleting multiple drafts for every single post I create. [ more ... ]

 
In addition to that, I also often fail to edit the moderated comment into the approved or spammed ones. It only works when you push the “delete” button. Some other problems were also discussed in the wordpress official forum here. In short if you have yet to move into wp 2.5, waiting for another version is much better off.

Anyone faces similar problem?

Update 29 April: As predicted (due to so many complains with the 2.5 version), Wordpress just released the 2.5.1 one. The official wp site says:

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration.

Hopefully so.


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    16 Comments »

    Comment by harish
    2008-04-22 00:08:21

    I’ve no problem during using wp2.5, i hope not.
    For drafting post, i seldom using drafting post in wp, usually i save it in my txt file (i know it’s an old way :) ).

     
    Comment by Luthfi
    2008-04-23 05:37:12

    1. membingungkan? iya, karena beda dgn versi sebelumnya
    2. kesulitan dlm posting. mgkn krn terkait dgn no 1
    3. kesulitan waktu upload gambar. kayaknya sih karena terlalu ajax :( … butuh benwit besar

     
    Comment by tontowi
    2008-04-23 08:52:18

    that’s why i use blogger..
    hehehe bcanda..

     
    Comment by khotib
    2008-04-23 16:36:00

    mas fatih,.,. mav nih aga keluar dari postingan diatas, saya mo nanya cara masang script iklan di wordprerss yang gratisan caranya gaman sih, aq dh nyari tutor nya di blog mas yang afatih.wordpres.com tapi g ada. ko klo saya masang script iklan ga bisa tampil yah,., mohon bantuannya,.,. klo bisa tolong kirim ke email saya di

    yeye_chaley@yahoo.com

    makasih mas fatih

     
    Comment by tehrouter
    2008-04-23 17:08:21

    Problem ini hanya ada di worpress.org, kan? wordpress dot kom aman :)

     
    Comment by bari.psycho
    2008-04-24 04:25:57

    thanks for useful informations
    :D SALAM

     
    Comment by alfin
    2008-04-24 10:28:21

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    Comment by Nugroho Adi Pratama
    2008-04-27 15:40:16

    udah tau lom, udah ada versi 2.5.1nya, kalo nggak salah apa yang mas fatih keluhkan udah diperbaiki; saya masih nunggu di fantastico hostingan saya keluar upgrade to 2.5.1 aja deh…..!!!!

     
    Comment by michael hutagalung
    2008-04-29 02:20:38

    upgrade ke 2.5.1 aja mas.. versi 2.5 kmrn saya juga ky gt.. hehehe.. dan di fantastico emang blum keluar.. tapi saya upgrade manual pake http://FTP.. hehe.. abis sering error capek juga..hehe..

     
    Comment by aminhers
    2008-05-01 12:15:30

    Be patient please !

     
    Comment by Marisa
    2008-05-01 17:43:47

    WordPress have been releasing upgrades in a time span much too short from one version to another. It’s necessary to have security fixes though, at least they’ve been keeping a record on possible problems and never delay a fix. But come on (!), it can be rather exhausting.

    Oh well, at least now we have something to complain about WP.

     
    Comment by alternative
    2008-05-02 09:32:49

    I dont have any problem with wp 2.5 with default script,but when I publishing a post the page back to the the last edit post,and I got the problem is my browser cache.

     
    Comment by weight tips
    2008-05-02 10:28:06

    recently wordpress do fast development on this blog scripts,wp 2.5 have good feature than before.

     
    Comment by rohman
    2008-05-04 05:28:16

    kalo saya nemuin masalah kalo pake IE saja, tapi kalo browsernya pake FF lancar-lancar aja mas fatih… masih males upgrade ke wp 5.2.1 :)

     
    Comment by tukang sapu jalanan
    2008-05-06 02:38:49

    iya nih belum ada masalah di FF.
    Wp 2.5.1 pengin uopgrade.. tapi bulum ada di cpanelnya.

     
    Comment by roffi
    2008-05-06 03:44:07

    not yet having problems.. just updated to 2.5 recently

     
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