WordPress 2.1

by Joe Thorn on January 25, 2007

WordPress 2.1, “Ella,” came out a couple days ago and I just upgraded. Man, now is the time to switch to WordPress.

About Joe Thorn

I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in Saint Charles, IL, and author of Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself. Jen is my wife, and Katherine, Elias, Madeline and Kilian are my kids.

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  • http://www.timellsworth.com Tim Ellsworth

    What are some of the features of the new version? I’m still running version 1.5, I believe, and haven’t upgraded just because the old version does everything I want. But maybe it’s time to think about upgrading.

  • http://www.timellsworth.com Tim Ellsworth

    I should say, what are some of the features of the new version that YOU like? I read the link to see the new features.

  • http://www.joethorn.net Joe Thorn

    Wow. 2.0 was such a huge improvement from 1.5. 2.1 is even better. At this point I don’t even remember what 1.5 was like.

    WYSIWYG editing, theme admin pages, widgets, image uploading, blog preview in editing, autosave while writing a post (never lose a post again), spellcheck, pages can be used as the front page of the blog – making it much more usable as a CMS for a website, and a pretty log-in page. Really from 1.5 the whole thing looks and runs differently.

  • http://bittersweetblue.blogspot.com AJ

    Pretty sweet template. I’m definitely tempted…

  • http://blog.wordsarenotenough.com joe kennedy

    Hey Joe, does upgrading cause you to post three times? Because if it does, then count me in!

    No actually I upgraded the other day. Loving it.

  • http://www.joethorn.net Joe Thorn

    Yeah Joe, the triple posting was the result of a new plug-in I was playing with. Everything is fixed.

  • http://www.thechurchgeek.com jim

    I’m just a wee bit nervous, when I upgraded to wordpress 2.0, I must have done something wrong as I lost my blog for about a day! Thankfully my server administrator, who also happens to be my friend, rescued me. But I’m not too anxious to update.

  • http://www.timmybrister.com Timmy Brister

    Joe (and anyone else for that matter),

    Have you experienced any difficulty with inserting java based HTML in the text box widgets? Just curious because I tried installing Technorati and Sitemeter and could not get either of them to work. Most recently I gave Active Meter a try to no avail. I can insert the regular HTML code but it does not enable the plug in to perform its functions.

    I am relatively new to WordPress (less than a month) and have found it difficult to figure that out, so any input would be appreciated.

    Timmy

  • http://www.joethorn.net Joe Thorn

    I believe you would have to plug in a stat counter into the code of the main page php. But I use a wordpress plugin for stats. What are you trying to do with technorati?

  • http://www.timmybrister.com Timmy Brister

    Well, just trying to get it in there somehow. Dude, I am retarded with stuff like that! The stats I tried (Site Meter and Active Meter) work but only show unique visitors and page views and nothing more (like incoming and outgoing links, referrals, etc.).

    I have a Technorati account set up but wasn’t able to get the code to work in the text box. It seems like being able to embed HTML inside a template would be so easy (like Blogger). I wonder why they don’t give you the ability to do that.

  • http://www.joethorn.net Joe Thorn

    Tim, are you hosted on a separate server, or are you set up at wordpress.com?

  • http://www.sixsteps.org/ Alex Leung

    I’ve been using WP 2.1 & K2 0.95rc1 on another blog of mine… for any ‘code’ that you want to have run properly in the sidebar, I’d suggest using the “Sidebar Modules” (SBM) plugin. http://nybblelabs.org.uk/ It is built into the latest K2 theme, “K2 Sidebar Modules”.

    Instead of putting java/html code into a Text module, use a HTML module for it. If you’re inserting PHP code into the sidebar, use the PHP module.

    I’m finding SBM to be more versatile than the WP Widgets system..

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