I’m now sporting WordPress 1.5-gamma, upgraded from WordPress 1.3 beta 5 (December 10th nightly). Let me know if anything is broken. Commenting appears to work, although I’m getting “Please moderate” messages for messages that pass through moderation.
Jeremy says
Any idea how much of a pain it would be to upgrade to 1.5 from 1.2? I assume I’d lose my formatting, etc and have to start over.
Benefits to 1.5? Major problems?
Just curious.
J
Mark says
New “hooks” for plugins. This means that a lot of things that had to be hacks in the past can now be plugins, not modifying any core code.
Themes system. You can change the look of your blog with one click, or drop in a 3rd party theme for an instant makeover.
Pages support. Now your “about” and “contact” pages can be integrated into WordPress as content “pages.”
Better backend organization.
Allow newly registered users to submit articles that are published only once approved by a moderator.
Vastly improved built-in anti-spam tools.
Better cookie management.
Zillions of bugs and glitches fixed.
A new family of “is_” functions that lets you show specific content only on certain types of pages, with little fuss.
Problems? Not any for me so far. It is definitely possible that some plugins might not be compatible, but any one that is worth fixing has been fixed. There are many people running blogs on 1.5 right now, so they have done a lot of the “little tweaks” sometimes needed to bring a plugin up to date.
Be warned that there are permanent database changes made… so you can’t just put 1.2.2 back on there if you run into problems. Make sure you do a full file and database backup first! The upgrade is painless (silent, even), but there are just many changes made in the underlying structure.