Behind The Blog

With WordPress 2.5 now out, we’ll be watching to see when WordPress MU gets updated. Of the long list of WP 2.5 features, the one that is honestly of most interest to me as the one running a blog site is of all things the improved editor:

Friendlier visual post editor — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML. It also now has a “no-distractions” mode which is like Writeroom for your browser.

I don’t use the visual post editor myself – I do all my posting through the MarsEdit offline blog editor – but as I’ve been helping others post to this site, I’ve seen the existing editor as one of the things that sometimes causes challenges. So I’m looking forward to the new editor.

All the other features look good, too, so it should be an interesting release to get into place. Per a thread on the WordPress MU forums, though, it may be a little bit before WPMU comes out with a new release in sync with WP 2.5. As noted in that thread, WordPress.com needs to be updated first. We’ll see. This will be the first WordPress MU upgrade we’ll have done to this site, so it will be an interesting learning experience for us. Will the “upgrade” features of WPMU work as well as we would hope they will?

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