Comments on: WordPress 2.5 notes from the field

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:47:41 +0000

The author of that Wikipedia article seems to be confused, they state no source nor has it had sufficient review.

From Answers.com: “Easy going; straightforward, unobstructed progress. For example, The first few months were difficult, but I think it’s plain sailing from here on. Alluding to navigating waters free of hazards, such as rocks or other obstructions, this term was transferred to other activities in the early 1800s.”

“Plain sailing” returns 228,000 Google entries, “plane sailing” only 26,700 and the free online dictionary contains references for “plain sailing” that go back to the early 1800′s and no entry whatsoever for “plane sailing”.

[)amien

By: robert

robert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:04 +0000

I thought so. Nothing to do with WordPress, of course (but given the name of the program, impossible to resist :) ):

The expression “plane sailing” has, by analogy, taken on a more general meaning of any activity that is relatively straightforward. However, in modern usage, it is often spelt incorrectly as “plain sailing”.

via Wikipedia.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:58:29 +0000

Joost, had some problems with 2.5.2 where comments would not display but I guess you know that and resolved them in 2.5.3 :)

[)amien

By: Kezzer

Kezzer — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:33:51 +0000

Is the tag system designed to replace the categories then?

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:16:42 +0000

Hey, I’ve tried to fix the Google Analytics plugin, could you test if the latest version works for you? XHTML compliant and everything? :) Thx!

By: Kezzer

Kezzer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:49:36 +0000

Binny: I tend to agree with you there. With everything being at the bottom it means I have to scroll down there, I’d rather they were on the right-hand side, especially as I work on my laptop at 1280×800 :)

By: Kezzer

Kezzer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:47:30 +0000

Since you mentioned it I decided to install it. I think it’s excellent. The administration pages have been updated so much, I much prefer them. I especially like the AJAX style loading for the pages on the main admin page.

I haven’t had a chance to sift through all the features just yet though.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:27:31 +0000

@AdrianR: Just wait until you need to edit your .htaccess in a hurry because somebody has linked to you incorrectly and you want to put a 302 redirect in.

[)amien

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:24:53 +0000

I like the new version – but I have a few complaints. I am a bit used to the ‘Write Post’ page of the old version(category list in the right side rather than at the bottom) – it will take some time for me to get used to that. Another issue I noticed is that I cannot use the flash uploader. I have to disable flash to upload files(using the fallback system).

By: Adrian Ritchie

Adrian Ritchie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:14:04 +0000

Whilst the removal of the file manager is a little on the annoying side for making changes to the core WordPress files I haven’t yet had to do anything that couldn’t be done with the new Theme Editor, Pludin Editor or the Media Library Manager.

Plus it means you’re less likely to break things completely until you got to a computer that has FTP access.