gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

Spending the night with Ella

Just a quick note to say that I'm not dead, I'm just upgrading.

After a few days off, I was going to post something clever tonight (delusions!) but I got sidetracked, in a good way. WordPress has just released version 2.1, codenamed "Ella" (yep, after Ella Fitzgerald.) I had neglected any upgrades thus far, and it was long overdue... so I spent the night with Ella. And here she is.

It was a rather pleasant night, all things considered. One of those things to consider was how hellishly awful my upgrade from Blogger to Wordpress was. By comparison, this was a snap.

To make a long story short, Ella is designed to make my life easier, not yours. You won't notice any of the major changes, but they include:

• Autosaving
• Tabs between WYSIWYG and HTML views
• spell checker
• faster interface
• an upload manager
• blogroll subcategories
• a new antispam plugin

So far my site seems to be working just fine. I haven't been able to get a couple of the new features to work yet, but they aren't essential, and it's probably just a matter of doing some reading.

[EDIT: Ooops, just noticed that there's a problem with my recent posts plugin... seems to have the same cutline for everything. Have to fix that...]

Anyhow, this is mostly a test post. There are a bunch of new image management features I should try too. So, er, um... here's a picture of some bears my daughter drew.

Grrrrr!