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Post Creation
2.0 uses a fancy new WYSIWYG post editor. It works pretty well, however, my first post (about Sirius) resulted in an HTML mess (primarily extraneous and tags scattered everywhere.)
You can drag-and-drop images from the upload area of the post page onto your post area. You can even resize an image in side the post editor. Very neat.
Uploading
They’ve redone how uploads are handled. It’s done right on the post page, and places the item in a wp-content/uploads/YEAR/MONTH/ folder scheme to make things a bit neater. However, unless I’m missing something, the configuration for uploads has disappeared. No where to set where it should store the uploads, no setting upload size limits or allowed filetypes.
This feature left the gate before it was ready, but I’m sure it will be improved soon.
Thumbnailing
When you upload an image, it automatically makes a thumbnail without asking. For no good reason, the dimensions of the scaled image has been hardcoded. The thumbnail is much too small.
Multiple Blogs off one install
Still no native support for have multiple blogs off of one install like MoveableType. There are various hacks out there that allow you to do this, but none appear to be very clean.
Post Preview
Post preview is now done within an iframe on the post window. This is a cheap hack which allows you to see exactly how your post will look on the site. Prior versions didn’t stylesheet info connected so it looked totally different.
Comment Spam
The bundled Akismet extension has caught all 82 spam comments that have been posted to my blog since I upgraded. So far so good.
Upgrade
After making full backups of my blog directory and database, my upgrade went without a hitch. The theme I’m using seems to work with no modifications… at least that I’ve noticed.
Wrap up
There are a bunch of other interface tweaks, often taking advantage of AJAX that isn’t really particularly useful. Overall an excellent upgrade, I just hope 2.1 follows soon. For a more complete list of changes, see this blog post from Matt, the main developer.
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